Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- De Grey Rooms
- A New Vision For York
- The Battle of the Standard
- The White Rose of York
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Abbot's House
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- A New University
- York and the Holocaust
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Walmgate Bar
- Barley Hall
- The York Helmet