Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of an Athlete
- Bronze weights
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Cawood Sword
- Mary Ward
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Is York Cursed?
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Ripon College for Women
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Norman House
- Monk Bar
- Mithras and Arimanius