Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Debtors' Prison
- York Railway Station
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Multangular Tower
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Medieval Abbey
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- York Bombed
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- York and the Holocaust
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- View from Station Rise
- Stonegate
- Second World War York