Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- A New Walk
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Statue of the God Mars
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- New Earswick
- William Etty, Artist
- Dick Turpin
- The Railway Institute
- Treasurer's House
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- De Grey Rooms
- Viking Coins
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior