Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fairfax House
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Gold Arm Ring
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Feeding Roman York
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Hospitium
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Norman Abbey
- The 1190 Massacre
- King Edward II and York
- The Shambles
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop