Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- York Railway Station
- Mary Ward
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The George Fox Incident
- Our Lady's Row
- The First Minster
- Scarborough Bridge
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Middleham Jewel
- Medieval Prisons
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- St Columba's United Reformed Church