Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- New Shopping Centres
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Margaret Clitherow
- Viking Boot
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Inscription to Hecules
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Dick Turpin
- The Black Death
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Bronze weights
- Alcuin of York
- The Minster in the 19th Century