Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Boot
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Lendal Bridge
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- 62 Low Petergate
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Barker Tower
- Feeding Roman York
- York Bombed
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Industrial Upheaval
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Barley Hall
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Church of St Helen