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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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Roman Fortress
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Second World War York
- York and the Holocaust
- The Norman Castle
- Margaret Clitherow
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Medieval Castle
- The George Fox Incident
- First World War York
- Olive Oil Container
- The Debtors' Prison
- John Carr - Architect
- York Central Library
- St Columba's United Reformed Church