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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree Park
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- A Pipkin
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Dick Turpin
- 62 Low Petergate
- Viking Coins
- Lendal Tower
- Fire in the Minster
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York and the Holocaust
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Guy Fawkes
- Jubbergate
- Fishergate Bar
- Monk Bar
- King Richard III and York