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Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was inhabited by celtic Britons and occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings.
After the Anglian settlement of the North of England, Anglian York was first capital of Deira and later Northumbria, and by the early 7th century, York was an important royal centre for the Northumbrian kings.
About 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, the first humans entered Yorkshire, in the wake of the shrinking ice cap which had previously covered northern England. At that time the appearance of the land differed greatly from that which we see today.
- Romano-British York
- Anglian York
- The School of York
- Danish and Viking York
- The Rule of The Earls
- The Norman Conquest
- The City in The 11th Century
Roman troops were garrisoned at York for more than 300 years but little is known ofthe history of the city during that period, partly because systematic and extensive excavation is impossible and partly because the city is so infrequently mentioned in earlywritings. Two events, however, were of sufficient importance in the history of theempire to e...
Apart from these slight indications that the Germanic invasions may not at first havebeen inimical to York, nothing is known of the fate of the city in the 5th and 6thcenturies. By the first decade of the 7th century, and perhaps earlier, it lay within butnot at the heart of the English kingdom of Deira. The first recorded king of Deira has leftlit...
The period of York's greatest cultural influence, when it became the principal shrineof the second age of Northumbrian culture and even attained a European influence unparalleled in its long history, was also a time of political anarchy in Northumbria. (fn. 33) Our knowledge of events at York during much of the period owes something to thesources u...
The delay of nearly 70 years between the first Danish raids (fn. 67) and the fall of York waspartly due to the wise policy of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, whose able diplomacykept the Danes from wholesale expansion. (fn. 68) Whether consciously or otherwise, theFrankish rulers hence repaid part of the debt they owed to the School of York. When ...
From the downfall of the last Norse adventurer until the Conquest, effective powerover Yorkshire, and frequently over all Northumbria, was wielded by a succession ofearls whose government was principally exercised from York. Their status may beregarded as intermediate between that of the old Northumbrian kings and that of thelesser contemporary ear...
Despite the submission of Edwin and Morcar, the Conqueror exercised little authoritynorth of the Humber during 1067, and in this confused period no organized body ofNorman troops is likely to have operated in the north. Between December 1067 andMarch 1068 while William busied himself in suppressing the west country, the firstmovement of revolt in t...
A remarkable testimony to the size and prosperity of York in the age preceding theConquest appears in a life of St. Oswald supposedly written c. 995–1005 by a monk ofRamsey. He describes the city as the metropolis of the Northumbrians, rejoicing in apopulation of 30,000 not counting children and youths. Once, he says, presumablyreferring to the Rom...
Mar 14, 2021 · The Danes changed its name to Jorvik. Then in 866, the Vikings conquered northern England and York became the capital of a new Viking kingdom. Viking York boomed and it grew much larger. In the town, wool was woven. There were blacksmiths and potters. Other craftsmen made combs from bone and antler.
For the first 650 of those years the people faced successive waves of raiders and settlers — Scandinavians, Saxons and Danes - until the Normans in their ruthless way finally established supremacy. Thereafter, struggles with Scottish raiders and conflict between rival contenders for the throne of all England led to further occasional bloodshed.
Feb 21, 2024 · The initial settlers of the 5 th century were probably very much free farmers, banded together in either parties or with warleaders, but all establishing small settlements without much hierarchy – farmer republics you might call them – but with the early signs of status, elites and hierarchies.
