Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Male Grooming
- The White Rose of York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The Basilica
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Barker Tower
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Assembly Rooms
- The Medieval Minster
- Rowntree Park
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Second World War York
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Micklegate Bar
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Statue of the God Mars