Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- A New Vision For York
- York Bombed
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Viking Coins
- The Greyfriars
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- First World War York
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Norman Abbey
- Fishergate Bar
- York Castle Museum
- The Railway King: George Hudson