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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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Vision For York
- Silver Strap Ends
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Shambles
- Roman Head Pot
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- York's Airfield
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- 62 Low Petergate
- York Railway Station
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- York and the Holocaust
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Retreat
- King Richard II and York