Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Norman Castle
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Our Lady's Row
- Ripon College for Women
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Black Death
- King Richard II and York
- Sixties York
- The Battle of the Standard
- First World War Memorial
- The Greyfriars
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Viking Boot
- Rowntree Park