Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Stonegate
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Black Death
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- New Shopping Centres
- The George Fox Incident
- Statue of an Athlete
- Fire in the Minster
- Mithras and Arimanius
- King Edward I and York
- Scarborough Bridge
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Transport Moves On
- Bootham Bar
- Alcuin of York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Micklegate Bar