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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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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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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of the God Mars
- New Shopping Centres
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Bone Trial Piece
- Church of St Olave
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Royal Station Hotel
- Lendal Bridge
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- New Earswick
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Roman Fortress
- The York Hoard
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning