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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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Norman House
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Cinema Comes to York
- Royal Station Hotel
- Industrial Upheaval
- Mary Ward
- Viking Coins
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Church of St Helen
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Roman Head Pot
- Fishergate Bar
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers