Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Vikings and Christianity
- Micklegate Bar
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The First Minster
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Viking Boot
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Railway Institute
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Horn of Ulf
- Sixties York
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Barley Hall
- Bone Trial Piece
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Dick Turpin