Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Mystery Plays
- Walmgate Bar
- View from Station Rise
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Black Death
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Minster Library
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Medieval Minster
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- York Union Gas Works
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Bronze weights
- Roman Head Pot
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Crossed Keys Symbol