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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Guildhall
- Rebuilt in Stone
- York Castle Museum
- Dick Turpin
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- York Art Gallery
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- King Edward I and York
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The New Theatre
- Rowntree Park
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Viking Silk Cap