Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Finger Ring
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The York Helmet
- Judges Lodging
- Sixties York
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- A New University
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- King Richard III and York
- York's Airfield
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Minster Library
- The 1190 Massacre
- The First Railway Station
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior