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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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Is York Cursed?
- Ripon College for Women
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Clifford's Tower
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Anglian Carving
- The Basilica
- De Grey Rooms
- The Battle of the Standard
- George Leeman