Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Hospitium
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- A Pipkin
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- John Carr - Architect
- The Norman House
- Inscription to Hecules
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Horn of Ulf
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Stonegate