Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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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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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Basilica
- Fairfax House
- St Crux's Church
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- A Pipkin
- Fishergate Bar
- Sixties York
- The Red Tower
- Alcuin of York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- View from Station Rise
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Statue of an Athlete
- Walmgate Bar
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Greyfriars
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa