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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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- De Grey Rooms
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Medieval Prisons
- The New Theatre
- Sixties York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Statue of an Athlete
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Ouse Bridge
- Guy Fawkes
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Walmgate Bar
- Micklegate Bar