Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Boot
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The Assembly Rooms
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Royal Station Hotel
- Viking Sword Pommel
- New Shopping Centres
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Barker Tower
- Judges Lodging
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Roman Fortress
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- York Union Gas Works
- First World War Memorial
- The George Fox Incident