Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Bar Convent
- The County Court House
- The First Minster
- Vikings and Christianity
- Feeding Roman York
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York and the Holocaust
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The New Theatre
- A New Walk
- Norman Window Frame
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- York Central Library
- The Minster in the 18th Century