I’d like to raise a tankard of mead to toast the Jorvik Viking Centre in York as our pioneering visitor attraction celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. I hesitate to call Jorvik a museum.

The image - from our Press archive - shows Bill Rogan and Bill Hudson fitting a sign on the new Viking Hotel in York. Officially opening on January 1, 1969, the hotel became the second tallest ...

WE walked down a flight of stairs – and back a thousand years. At street level, Coppergate shows little sign of York’s ...

it was declared to be Treasure and York Museums Trust purchased it. The ring is made of 95% gold and weighs over 300g. In Viking England, armlets were given by powerful lords to secure allegiance ...

The band may have been a decorative edge, or the beginning of a red-coloured leg of a longer stocking. This object is on display at JORVIK Viking Centre.

Hundreds of people have lined the streets of York to watch some of the JORVIK Viking Festival's flagship events. The sixth day of the festival - which is in its 40th year - saw the Viking's march ...

considered to be the most remarkable Viking relic now in existence outside Scandinavia— was reported at the February meeting of the Trustees of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). It is a carving ...