Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Barley Hall
- Bronze weights
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The York Hoard
- Crest of York St John College
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The Cawood Sword
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Teaching the Poor
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Norman Abbey
- Viking Boot
- The Council of Arles