Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Multangular Tower
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- John Carr - Architect
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Viking Silk Cap
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Medieval Minster
- Viking Boot
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Red Tower
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Yorkshire Museum
- Anglian Carving
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom