Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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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.
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Shambles
- Yorkshire Museum
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Debtors' Prison
- Feeding Roman York
- Statue of Napoleon
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Mary Ward
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Cawood Sword