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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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Red Tower
- A Pipkin
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Mary Ward
- Crest of York St John College
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The York Helmet
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The White Rose of York
- York and the Holocaust
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Jubbergate