Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Bootham Bar
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Military Belt Fitting
- Teaching the Poor
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Mary Ward
- Fire in the Minster
- York and the Holocaust
- Viking Coins
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The George Fox Incident
- The First Minster
- Church of St Helen
- Statue of the God Mars