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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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Railway Institute
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Multangular Tower
- Anglian Cross
- Minster Library
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Alcuin of York
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- King Richard III and York
- York and the Holocaust
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Treasurer's House
- York's Coat of Arms
- Church of St Olave
- King Edward I and York