Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- A New Vision For York
- Treasurer's House
- Statue of the God Mars
- New Shopping Centres
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Norman Window Frame
- Crest of York St John College
- New Earswick
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Stonegate
- York Castle Museum
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Norman House
- Micklegate Bar
- Scarborough Bridge