Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Castle Museum
- Rowntree Park
- A Pipkin
- The Medieval Abbey
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- First World War York
- Barley Hall
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The York Hoard
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Cawood Sword
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Dick Turpin
- Bootham Bar