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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Holy Trinity Church
- Mary Ward
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Viking Coins
- Viking Boot
- Barker Tower
- Cinema Comes to York
- Inscription to Hecules
- King Richard III and York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- A New Vision For York
- The Battle of the Standard
- The Retreat
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Feeding Roman York