Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Norman Castle
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The Basilica
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York and the Holocaust
- Is York Cursed?
- Yorkshire Museum
- Rowntree Park
- Medieval Prisons
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The Greyfriars
- Bootham Bar
- King Edward III and York
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Dick Turpin
- The Mansion House