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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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Black Death
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- New Earswick
- The Horn of Ulf
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Multangular Tower
- Rebuilt in Stone
- York and the Holocaust
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Female Prison
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The First Minster
- Monk Bar