Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Bridge
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Medieval Prisons
- Anglian Carving
- King Richard II and York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The New Theatre
- The Debtors' Prison
- York Art Gallery
- The Medieval Abbey
- Micklegate Bar
- A New University
- Dick Turpin