Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York Art Gallery
- Feeding Roman York
- Military Belt Fitting
- Crest of York St John College
- The Shambles
- The Hospitium
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- William Etty, Artist
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The County Court House
- Bone Trial Piece
- Vikings and Christianity
- Amber Bead Workshop