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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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- King Edward II and York
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Royal Station Hotel
- Middleham Jewel
- York and the Holocaust
- Medieval Prisons
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The York Helmet
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa