Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Union Gas Works
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Medieval Prisons
- York's Coat of Arms
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Norman House
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Abbot's House
- Dick Turpin
- Guy Fawkes
- King Edward III and York
- York Bombed
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Mansion House
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Minster in Viking Times