Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Treasurer's House
- St William's Shrine
- The Shambles
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Crest of York St John College
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Silver Strap Ends
- New Earswick
- Statue of Napoleon
- King Richard III and York
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Bootham Bar
- Guy Fawkes