Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- The Council of Arles
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Is York Cursed?
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Church of St Helen
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Middleham Jewel
- A New Walk
- King Richard III and York
- The Debtors' Prison
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Basilica
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Guy Fawkes