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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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Holy Trinity Church
- The New Theatre
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- View from Station Rise
- Feeding Roman York
- Sixties York
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The York Helmet
- Micklegate Bar
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Medieval Prisons
- Roman Head Pot
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- First World War Memorial
- George Leeman
- New Earswick