Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Bar Convent
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Sixties York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Guildhall
- Royal Station Hotel
- Lendal Tower
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The George Fox Incident
- St Crux's Church
- Yorkshire Museum
- Dick Turpin
- Stonegate
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers