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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Male Grooming
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Female Prison
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- View from Station Rise
- The Cawood Sword
- John Carr - Architect
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Red Tower
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Ripon College for Women
- The Medieval Abbey
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- A New Vision For York