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 Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Crux's Church
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Bronze weights
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- First World War Memorial
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York and the Holocaust
- Medieval Prisons
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Walmgate Bar
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- A Pipkin
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Crest of York St John College