Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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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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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Dick Turpin
- York's Airfield
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The York Observatory
- The Medieval Castle
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The White Rose of York
- York's Coat of Arms
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Guildhall
- Fishergate Bar
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Mansion House
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The New Theatre