Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Greyfriars
- William Etty, Artist
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York Railway Station
- Sixties York
- Alcuin of York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Railway Institute
- Yorkshire Museum
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Is York Cursed?
- Constantius Chlorus
- The York Observatory
- The George Fox Incident