Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The County Court House
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Treasurer's House
- View from Station Rise
- Ripon College for Women
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Teaching the Poor
- St Crux's Church
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York's Coat of Arms
- Micklegate Bar
- Feeding Roman York
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Shambles