Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Aldwark Synagogue
- A New Walk
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- First World War Memorial
- Roman Head Pot
- Constantius Chlorus
- Is York Cursed?
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Multangular Tower
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Plum Cakes for Christmas