Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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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.
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The Debtors' Prison
- Barley Hall
- Alcuin of York
- The First Minster
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York Art Gallery
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Lendal Tower
- First World War Memorial
- Guy Fawkes
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Guildhall
- The Victorian Prison Building