Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Airfield
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Female Prison
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Bar Convent
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- A Pipkin
- View from Station Rise
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Is York Cursed?
- The Assembly Rooms
- The Council of Arles
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool