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 Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- George Leeman
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Assembly Rooms
- Vikings and Christianity
- Anglian Carving
- The End of the Abbey
- York and the Holocaust
- Mithras and Arimanius
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning