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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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ouse Bridge
- The Cawood Sword
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The York Hoard
- New Earswick
- George Leeman
- Scarborough Bridge
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Viking Coins
- Crest of York St John College
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Our Lady's Row
- The Railway Institute
- Aldwark Synagogue