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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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Minster in Viking Times
- George Leeman
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Minster Library
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Our Lady's Row
- Treasurer's House
- York and the Holocaust
- Jubbergate
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Statue of the God Mars
- York Garrison
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York Art Gallery