Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Norman Window Frame
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Minster Library
- First World War York
- Ripon College for Women
- Rowntree Park
- The Cawood Sword
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Bronze weights
- York Railway Station
- Amber Bead Workshop
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Vale of York Viking Hoard