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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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Prisons
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Debtors' Prison
- Our Lady's Row
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The First Railway Station
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Mansion House
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Medieval Castle
- Margaret Clitherow
- Statue of the God Mars
- Micklegate Bar
- St William's Shrine
- Second World War York
- York and the Holocaust