Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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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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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Mary Ward
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The 1190 Massacre
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bronze weights
- Barley Hall
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Multangular Tower
- The Medieval Castle
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Micklegate Bar