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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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Boot
- Statue of Napoleon
- Bootham School
- Fairfax House
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Olive Oil Container
- A New Walk
- Bone Trial Piece
- Lendal Tower
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- 62 Low Petergate
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Assembly Rooms