Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Fairfax House
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Vikings and Christianity
- Viking Coins
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- York Bombed
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Anglian Carving
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- King Richard II and York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York