Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Viking Sword Pommel
- View from Station Rise
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Council of Arles
- Roman Head Pot
- Mary Ward
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Walmgate Bar
- The York Observatory
- Ripon College for Women
- The Basilica
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers