Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Sword Pommel
- New Earswick
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The County Court House
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Red Tower
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Our Lady's Row
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- First World War Memorial
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- York St John in the 20th Century
- King Edward III and York