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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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Inscription to Hecules
- Fairfax House
- York and the Holocaust
- The Debtors' Prison
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Our Lady's Row
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The Norman Castle
- The Mystery Plays
- Anglian Carving
- Treasurer's House
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Minster after the Reformation