Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Transport Moves On
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Inscription to Hecules
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Bootham School
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Medieval Prisons
- Amber Bead Workshop
- A New Vision For York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Debtors' Prison