Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Arm Ring
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Treasurer's House
- The Norman Minster
- The New Theatre
- Rowntree Park
- John Carr - Architect
- Guy Fawkes
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Viking Coins
- The Basilica
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Debtors' Prison
- Church of St Helen
- The White Rose of York
- A New Vision For York