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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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Male Grooming
- The York Helmet
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Church of St Olave
- The Guildhall
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Barley Hall
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Fairfax House
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Silver Strap Ends
- Victoria Bar
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Horn of Ulf
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions