Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Red Tower
- Viking Boot
- Treasurer's House
- The Minster in Viking Times
- New Earswick
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Bar Convent
- King Edward II and York
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Jewbury Cemetery
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The Greyfriars
- A New University