Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Norman Minster
- Viking Boot
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The 1190 Massacre
- York Union Gas Works
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Norman House
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Ripon College for Women
- Gold Arm Ring
- Ouse Bridge
- The Bar Convent
- The York Observatory
- York St John in the 20th Century
- View from Station Rise