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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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman House
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- De Grey Rooms
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The George Fox Incident
- Clifford's Tower
- Second World War York
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Norman Minster
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- St Leonard's Hospital
- New Earswick
- Inscription to Hecules
- Bootham School
- The First Railway Station
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity