Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Walk
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Treasurer's House
- Water Lanes
- The Railway Institute
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Viking Sword Pommel
- York Union Gas Works
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Assembly Rooms
- A New Vision For York