Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The York Helmet
- The Cawood Sword
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Alcuin of York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- A Pipkin
- The Retreat
- A New University
- The Medieval Castle
- King Edward II and York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Church of St Olave
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers