Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Roman Chimney Pot
- A Pipkin
- Is York Cursed?
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Church of St Olave
- Alcuin of York
- A New University
- The First Railway Station
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Norman Abbey
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- York Garrison
- York Railway Station
- York Art Gallery
- The Norman House