Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Abbot's House
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Retreat
- The Railway Institute
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Teaching the Poor
- Guy Fawkes
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Black Death
- Transport Moves On
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Greyfriars
- The 1190 Massacre
- York Bombed
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- New Earswick
- Sixties York