Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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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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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Multangular Tower
- Industrial Upheaval
- Monk Bar
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Feeding Roman York
- The York Helmet
- Scarborough Bridge
- York's Airfield
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Viking Coins
- Our Lady's Row
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Olive Oil Container
- View from Station Rise
- Crest of York St John College