Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Norman Abbey
- The Debtors' Prison
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The 1190 Massacre
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- A Pipkin
- Church of St Helen
- The York Hoard
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The York Observatory
- King Richard II and York
- Statue of Napoleon
- Second World War York