Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ouse Bridge
- Amber Bead Workshop
- The First Minster
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Roman Fortress
- Royal Station Hotel
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Bronze weights
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Black Death
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The York Hoard
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Viking Boot
- The York Observatory