Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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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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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- King Richard III and York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- A New Walk
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Feeding Roman York
- Roman Chimney Pot
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Inscription to Hecules
- The York Hoard
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Crest of York St John College
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Basilica
- The George Fox Incident
- Ripon College for Women
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Guy Fawkes