Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Assembly Rooms
- Rowntree Park
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Norman House
- York and the Holocaust
- Second World War York
- The 1190 Massacre
- Stonegate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- King Edward II and York
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- York Central Library
- Cumberland House, King's Staith