Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Debtors' Prison
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Barley Hall
- Jewbury Cemetery
- King Richard II and York
- Dick Turpin
- Industrial Upheaval
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Transport Moves On
- Minster Library
- The Assembly Rooms
- The York Observatory
- The York Hoard
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey