Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Victoria Bar
- The Hospitium
- The Cawood Sword
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Judges Lodging
- Roman Head Pot
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Barley Hall
- Scarborough Bridge
- Constantius Chlorus
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- New Earswick
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Vale of York Viking Hoard