Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Debtors' Prison
- A New Walk
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Is York Cursed?
- Viking Coins
- Micklegate Bar
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Clifford's Tower
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Military Belt Fitting
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Bootham School
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Railway Institute
- King Edward II and York