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 ...

National Museums and Galleries of Wales ... Jorvik Centre - Explores many aspects of daily life in Viking York in the tenth century.

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 ...

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

EXPERTS in York are opening up a treasure chest of free Viking-themed activities for schools to delve into. Weapons, silk, ivory and poetry will all feature in the Jorvik Viking Thing: Schools ...