Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Second World War York
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- New Shopping Centres
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Jubbergate
- William Etty, Artist
- Alcuin of York
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Norman House
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Church of St Olave
- First World War York
- New Earswick
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Female Prison
- King's Manor - Victorian