Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Transport Moves On
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Gold Arm Ring
- Cinema Comes to York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Rowntree Park
- The Abbot's House
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- King Richard III and York
- Barley Hall
- The County Court House
- John Carr - Architect
- Our Lady's Row
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bootham School
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York