Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Constantius Chlorus
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Bootham School
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The White Rose of York
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Vikings and Christianity
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Lendal Tower