Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Dick Turpin
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Is York Cursed?
- Walmgate Bar
- A New Vision For York
- First World War York
- Statue of an Athlete
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Victorian Prison Building
- New Shopping Centres
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The First Minster
- Bootham Bar
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The First Railway Station
- The Minster after the Reformation