Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Jubbergate
- The Mansion House
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Horn of Ulf
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York and the Holocaust
- The Cawood Sword
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York Central Library
- Judges Lodging
- Bootham Bar
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning