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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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York Railway Station
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Horn of Ulf
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- St William's Shrine
- Royal Station Hotel
- Church of St Helen
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Norman Minster
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Judges Lodging
- Transport Moves On
- Jubbergate