Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward III and York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Bronze weights
- The Railway Institute
- The End of the Abbey
- The Red Tower
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Medieval Abbey
- York and the Holocaust
- King Edward II and York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Mary Ward
- First World War Memorial
- Teaching the Poor
- The York Observatory
- Viking Coins