Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- New Shopping Centres
- Bootham Bar
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Second World War York
- The Council of Arles
- The Norman Minster
- York and the Holocaust
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- A New University
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- King Edward III and York
- Crest of York St John College
- Lendal Bridge
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Jewbury Cemetery
- York St John in the 20th Century