Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- The Mansion House
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Norman Castle
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- King Edward II and York
- The Hospitium
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Mary Ward
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Statue of the God Mars
- A New Vision For York
- The Norman Minster
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Battle of the Standard
- The First Minster
- A New University