Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Olave
- Fishergate Bar
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Holy Trinity Church
- Crest of York St John College
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Inscription to Hecules
- Feeding Roman York
- First World War York
- Walmgate Bar
- The 1190 Massacre
- George Leeman
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning