Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Middleham Jewel
- The Black Death
- The Battle of the Standard
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Hospitium
- Yorkshire Museum
- Dick Turpin
- Barley Hall
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- King Richard II and York
- Elizabeth Boardingham