Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The York Observatory
- The End of the Abbey
- Royal Station Hotel
- A New Walk
- Medieval Prisons
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Anglian Cross
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Statue of the God Mars
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York and the Holocaust
- Bootham School