Vikings

Village of the week. The Queens Head pub at Kirkby Malzeard.

The Yorkshire village where singer Bing Crosby helped pay for playing fields

Masham village of the week. The Black Sheep Brewery has been making beers in the town since 1992.
Photographed by Yorkshire Post photographer Jonathan Gawthorpe.
8th August 2023.

Not last orders just yet for the traditional Yorkshire market town of Malham

UPS AND DOWNS: Yorkshire Vikings have followed a six-game winning streak in the T20 Blast with two heavy losses, leaving their hopes of reaching the knockout phase in the balance. Picture by John Clifton/SWpix.com

Vikings need to find their groove again in T20 Blast

IN THE HUNT: Yorkshire CCC captain Shan Masood (right) pictured during Tuesday night's T20 Blast defeat at home to Northamptonshire. Picture by John Clifton/SWpix.com

Vikings captain reveals points haul target needed to make T20 quarter-finals

Vikings march through York during the Jorvik Viking Festival. (Pic credit: Simon Hulme)

History behind Yorkshire’s links with Vikings as Channel 5 show airs

Tim Daniels, senior business lending manager Finance For Enterprise (left), with Steve Moore, managing director, Skippers Pet Products. Picture by Duncan Young.

Doncaster-based Finance For Enterprise helps Grimsby pet food firm to scale up

Junior players at Thongsbridge sport the new-look Yorkshire Vikings and Northern Diamonds strips (PictureL Ben Wickett / Yorkshire CCC)

Yorkshire and Northern Diamonds launch new strips inspired by local game

Vikings take over the city

Jorvik Viking Festival 2023: All the best photos from Norse gathering in York

Terry Harvey-Chadwick, Viking Name Bjarni Thorvaldrson taking part in this this year's Viking Festival.

The best photographs from the Jorvik Viking Festival 2023 in York

in February, the streets of York will once again be filled with warriors and weavers alike as the city’s Jorvik Viking Festival returns for nine days of Norse-fuelled events, lectures and re-enactments.

York to become Viking capital once again

Ronnie O'Sullivan who has just captured his fourth Cazoo Champion of Champions title will now battle in York

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Young Viking warriors Elijah Harris, 8, Keira Harris, 5, and Trystan Harris, 11, from Northampton

The best pictures as scores of 'Vikings' take over Whitby Abbey

HARRY BROOK: Will captain Yorkshire Vikings as they aim to win the Vitality Blast. Picture: PA Wire.

Harry Brook ready for Yorkshire's big day after frustrating summer with England

Yorkshire's Jordan Thompson (right) celebrates taking the wicket of Surrey's Sunil Narine during the Vitality Blast T20 quarter-final at The Oval. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA

Thompson targets more success for Vikings in T20 Blast Finals Day

Yorkshire's Jordan Thompson celebrates victory after the final ball following the Vitality Blast T20 quarter-final match at The Oval. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

Vikings hero Thompson relives dramatic winning T20 over

CHALLENGE: Yorkshire Vikings T20 Blast captain David Willey will not be available to face Surrey on Wednesday night. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Opportunity knocks to step up and lead Vikings to T20 Finals Day

Yorkshire Vikings' captain David Willey. Picture: SWpix.com

Leicestershire v Yorkshire: ‘We’re lucky to be through’ admits Willey

Yorkshire Vikings' Adam Lyth. Picture: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Yorkshire enjoy their Edgbaston return with T20 triumph

Power Player: Yorkshire Vikings Dawid Malan hits out during his innings of 50 in last night’s rain-reduced defeat by Derbyshire Falcons. Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Drakes’ arrival will help to bolster Vikings’ T20 squad

The first day of celebrations saw a host of popular staples for the Festival, including the March to Coppergate, with a column of around 150 Vikings processing through the city from York Minster, passing the living history encampment on Parliament Street and ending outside JORVIK Viking Centre itself.

York Viking Festival: City steps back in time as it sees the first Jorvik Games

Top scorer: Yorkshire's Dawid Malan hit 50 and then was promptly out. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Harry Brook reaches milestone but Foxes shock Vikings
HARRY BROOK reached 1,000 runs before the end of May (County Championship and T20) - but Yorkshire failed to reach a target of 189 as they fell to their first defeat of the season.

Vikings' Harry Brook and Joe Root tap as their partnership takes them to victory. Picture: Tony Johnson

Yorkshire v Worcestershire: Brook and Root lead Vikings to opening T20 win

Sheffield Eagles' Anthony Thackeray leads the team out at their new home. Pictures: Simon Hulme

Sheffield Eagles 34 Widnes 24: Welcome home as Eagles celebrate with victory

Eastrington Show near Howden has been going for 130 years

Eastrington Show's colourful history includes musical chairs with cars

York has been named amongst 20 most charming medieval destinations in Europe

Yorkshire city named amongst 20 most charming medieval destinations in Europe

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A fair at Yarm High Street from 1954. (Hartlepool Mail).

Whether it's the railway, tunnels or bridges - Yarm has quite a story to tell

Yorkshire's Tom Kohler-Cadmore hits out against Birmingham. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Lack of ‘home comforts’ no issue as Yorkshire Vikings target T20 Finals Day

Yorkshire's Jonny Tattersall, right. Picture: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Yorkshire clinch place in Royal London Cup quarter-finals

Baz Jones, the artistic director of the York Walls festival on the walls near the Fishergate Postern Tower

How York City Walls Festival is keeping city's history relevant in a modern age

Yorkshire's Will Luxton. Picture: Will Palmer/SWpix.com

Youthful Yorkshire suffer in defeat at Taunton

A fragment of 800-year-old Scarborough ware found in a dig ahead of this weekend's Big Dig Pic: Gary Longbottom

Neolithic arrowhead and part of medieval 'face' jug found in Scarborough dig
A Time Team-style Big Dig is underway in Scarborough where dozens of trenches are being opened up in the Old Town to try and find out about past settlers - including the Romans and Vikings - over the weekend.

LEAD ROLE: Will Fraine warmed up for the Royal London Cup with an unbeaten 146 in Tuesday's warm-up game at Scarborough against Northumberland. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Yorkshire v Surrey: Opportunity knocks as the Vikings take RLC show on road

PROMISING: Yorkshire's Harry Duke. Picture by John Clifton/SWpix.com

Harry Duke backed to realise opening potential as Yorkshire Vikings warm-up for ...

Hessle Whiting Mill - once used for crushing chalk – alongside the Humber Bridge. (Gary Longbottom).

Everyone from the Vikings to the Victorians have left their mark on Hessle

CONSISTENT: Yorkshire Vikings' Harry Brook has impressed in the Vitality T20 Blast. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Notts Outlaws v Yorkshire - Vikings target early T20 Blast quarter-final spot

Harry Brook and Yorkshire Vikings are at Leicestershire Foxes tonight (Picture: SWPix.com)

Leics v Yorks T20: Below-par bowling display sees Tykes lose top spot

Oliver Wheatley, who set up Wheatleys of Yorkshire in Hull, making mead Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

How Game of Thrones has led to a revival in Yorkshire’s mead industry

An artist's impression of the Viking camp at Torksey.

Viking Great Army’s transformation of England and Yorkshire revealed in new book

Jim Morrison with his son James at Parkol Marine Engineering. (James Hardisty).

The Whitby-based business carrying on Yorkshire's long history of shipbuilding

Wild flowers decorate the side of the 199 steps which lead up to St Mary's Church and the Abbey in Whitby. (Bruce Rollinson).

From fishing and gemstones, to Vikings and Captain Cook - Whitby has the lot

Jayne Dowle says she finds Flamborough lighthouse a comforting presence.

We can all support golden chance for Yorkshire coast to win new visitors - Jayne...

Bedale's high street is as broad as it is attractive. (James Hardisty).

From Romans and Vikings to conjurers and film stars - Bedale has quite a story t...

Graffiti on the Winston Churchill statue during the Black Lives Matter protest rally in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis.

Are police scared of being accused of racism? – Yorkshire Post Letters

Looking down into Gordale Scar. Picture: Bruce Rollinson. Technical details: Nikon D4, 17-35mm f2.8, 1.3 sec @ f13, 100asa.

This is Gordale Scar, the Yorkshire Dales ravine that inspired William Wordswort...

Yorkshire Christmas traditions

10 of Yorkshire's most weird and wonderful Christmas traditions

York Design Week will explore how creativity and design could shape the city's future and tackle societal issues.

How design could help shape the future of historic York

The first Viking Festival held at Ulleskelf, near Tadcaster, with entertainment from Jorfor's Hall Viking reenactment group.

Sell-out success as Vikings return to Ulleskelf

Curator of Archaeology Lucy Creighton with an seventh century Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, believed to have come from the burial of a noblewoman, that has recently been acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in York.

York's '˜Acomb Grave' gives up its secrets

Hull FC's Liam Harris (left) breaks through to score a try past Widnes Vikings' Joe Mellor (right).

Hull FC 31 Widnes 24: Hull fend off Vikings fightback as Connor leads way

Adil Rashid: White-ball only.

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Castleford's Greg Minikin gets away from Widnes' Thomas Gilmore to score the opening try.

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Actors recreate the Viking invasion of York on November 1, AD866. Picture by Charlotte Graham

Anniversary march as three Vikings take York once more

Jake Connor.

Playing for Hull FC is '˜easy', admits hat-trick star Connor

Record-breaker: Yorkshire's Adam Lyth.
Picture: SWPIX

Why Adam Lyth's search for right T20 method was well worth the wait

Halifax 12 Widnes 36: Vikings show no mercy as Halifax lose out

Yorkshire captain Tim Bresnancelebrates taking a wicket against Notts Outlaws. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com

Yorkshire Vikings v Birmingham Bears: Bresnan hoping home is where the start is ...

Featherstone Rovers sign ex Widnes Vikings forward Sam Brooks

Australian batsman Shaun Marsh cracked an unbeaten 60 from 37 balls on his Yorkshire Twenty20 debut, as they powered to a 48-run win (Picture: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com).

Vikings appear to have the T20 firepower to succeed

STUFFED FULL: Heather Bowser in Pandoras Cabinet of Peculiarities and Other Side Show Curiosities. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

York to welcome new museum that will be a shrine to the oddball