Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Bootham Bar
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Guy Fawkes
- De Grey Rooms
- Statue of Napoleon
- New Shopping Centres
- Viking Male Grooming
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Vikings and Christianity
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Medieval Abbey
- Fairfax House
- The George Fox Incident
- Clifford's Tower
- Yorkshire Museum