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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Viking Silk Cap
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Vikings and Christianity
- Teaching the Poor
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Alcuin of York
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- York Central Library
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- King Edward II and York
- Mary Ward
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Constantius Chlorus
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Red Tower