Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Micklegate Bar
- Is York Cursed?
- The Battle of the Standard
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The Norman Castle
- The Multangular Tower
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Debtors' Prison
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The Medieval Castle
- Rowntree Park
- William Etty, Artist
- The George Fox Incident
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Minster after the Reformation