Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Coat of Arms
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Medieval Minster
- Roman Head Pot
- First World War York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Ouse Bridge
- New Shopping Centres
- A New Walk
- Statue of an Athlete
- Ripon College for Women
- Scarborough Bridge
- York Castle Museum
- Vikings and Christianity
- Dick Turpin
- King Edward II and York
- The Mystery Plays
- The Greyfriars