Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Railway Station
- King Edward II and York
- Statue of Napoleon
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Bootham School
- Teaching the Poor
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Medieval Abbey
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York and the Holocaust
- Feeding Roman York
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Greyfriars
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Lendal Bridge