Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Assembly Rooms
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- New Shopping Centres
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York Castle Museum
- A New Walk
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Statue of Napoleon
- Sixties York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- A New University
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Jewbury Cemetery