Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The George Fox Incident
- Feeding Roman York
- Vikings and Christianity
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Rowntree Park
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Ouse Bridge
- Statue of the God Mars
- Barley Hall
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Lendal Bridge
- View from Station Rise