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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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Walk
- The End of the Abbey
- York Bombed
- The Battle of the Standard
- Yorkshire Museum
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Debtors' Prison
- The York Hoard
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Horn of Ulf
- King Richard II and York
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- William Etty, Artist
- The Retreat
- Treasurer's House
- Anglian Cross