Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Walmgate Bar
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Sixties York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The York Hoard
- Gold Finger Ring
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Yorkshire Museum
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Female Prison
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Is York Cursed?
- Church of St Olave
- York Bombed