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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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Black Death
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bronze weights
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Is York Cursed?
- Sixties York
- The Cawood Sword
- Roman Head Pot
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Mithras and Arimanius
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Amber Bead Workshop
- 62 Low Petergate
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The York Hoard
- Church of St Wilfrid