Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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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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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Garrison
- A New Walk
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Norman Window Frame
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Feeding Roman York
- Treasurer's House
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Ripon College for Women
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Sixties York
- The Norman Abbey