Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Feeding Roman York
- The George Fox Incident
- The County Court House
- The Railway Institute
- The Hospitium
- Lendal Bridge
- Walmgate Bar
- Yorkshire Museum
- Treasurer's House
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Silver Strap Ends
- A Pipkin
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- York's Coat of Arms
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse