Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Mansion House
- The Norman Abbey
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- York and the Holocaust
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- William Etty, Artist
- St Crux's Church
- Monk Bar
- Lendal Bridge
- A New Walk
- The Roman Fortress
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Viking Boot
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- St Leonard's Hospital