Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- New Shopping Centres
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Eric Bloodaxe
- A New University
- Walmgate Bar
- Stonegate
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- First World War York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Viking Boot
- Mary Ward
- King Richard III and York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Alcuin of York
- Norman Window Frame