Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Roman Head Pot
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Sixties York
- The Medieval Minster
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The White Rose of York
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The York Hoard
- Feeding Roman York
- Inscription to Hecules
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Debtors' Prison
- Treasurer's House
- Industrial Upheaval
- George Leeman
- The Roman Fortress
- Margaret Clitherow