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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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Barley Hall
- A New Vision For York
- Mary Ward
- King Richard II and York
- The Greyfriars
- York Central Library
- The Female Prison
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The 1190 Massacre
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Dick Turpin
- Bronze weights
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- George Leeman
- King Edward I and York