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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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Yorkshire Museum
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Stonegate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- St Leonard's Hospital
- St William's Shrine
- First World War York
- The Abbot's House
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- A New University
- Minster Library
- King Richard III and York
- The Pilgrimage of Grace