Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward II and York
- Rowntree Park
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York's Coat of Arms
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Norman Abbey
- St William's Shrine
- Skeldergate Bridge
- York Railway Station
- The Mystery Plays
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse