Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ouse Bridge
- Industrial Upheaval
- Bootham Bar
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Black Death
- The Railway Institute
- Viking Silk Cap
- A Pipkin
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Lendal Bridge
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Margaret Clitherow
- Lendal Tower
- Monk Bar
- Dick Turpin