Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Barley Hall
- View from Station Rise
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- The Cawood Sword
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Viking Male Grooming
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Fishergate Bar
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Red Tower
- King Richard III and York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Norman Castle
- The Bar Convent
- Roman Head Pot
- The Abbot's House