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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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Ouse Bridge
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Micklegate Bar
- The First Minster
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Roman Fortress
- Constantius Chlorus
- A New University
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Sixties York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Minster in the 19th Century