Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Second World War York
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Assembly Rooms
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The County Court House
- Olive Oil Container
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa