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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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Retreat
- Viking Coins
- Constantius Chlorus
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Roman Head Pot
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Lendal Bridge
- The Red Tower
- Bootham School
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Black Death
- King Richard III and York
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Is York Cursed?
- Alcuin of York