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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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Norman Window Frame
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Multangular Tower
- New Earswick
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Council of Arles
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The George Fox Incident
- The York Hoard
- Vikings and Christianity
- Holy Trinity Church
- Lendal Tower
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- First World War York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers