Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Cawood Sword
- King Edward II and York
- The Hospitium
- William Etty, Artist
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Mystery Plays
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- St Leonard's Hospital
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Scarborough Bridge
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- George Leeman
- The Norman Minster