Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- Is York Cursed?
- Royal Station Hotel
- York Bombed
- The Basilica
- King Edward I and York
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Rowntree Park
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Debtors' Prison
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Lendal Bridge
- Minster Library
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Alcuin of York
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy