Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Ripon College for Women
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Medieval Minster
- Fairfax House
- King Edward I and York
- The Hospitium
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Stonegate