Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Male Grooming
- Ripon College for Women
- The First Railway Station
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Greyfriars
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Walmgate Bar
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- A New Walk
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Cawood Sword
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Mansion House
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Church of St Helen