Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Dick Turpin
- The Basilica
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The Norman Abbey
- King Edward III and York
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Lendal Tower
- John Carr - Architect
- The Roman Fortress
- The Greyfriars
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Viking Boot
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity