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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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Water Lanes
- Anglian Carving
- Norman Window Frame
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Ouse Bridge
- Viking Male Grooming
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York Union Gas Works
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Inscription to Hecules
- Church of St Olave
- Sixties York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Walmgate Bar
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Feeding Roman York
- The Norman Castle
- Micklegate Bar