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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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Central Methodist Chapel
- York Union Gas Works
- The Norman Abbey
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Teaching the Poor
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Medieval Castle
- The Battle of the Standard
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Constantius Chlorus
- Viking Coins
- First World War Memorial
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Abbot's House
- Bootham Bar
- A New Vision For York