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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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- New Shopping Centres
- York Railway Station
- Constantius Chlorus
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Holy Trinity Church
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Norman House
- The Debtors' Prison
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- De Grey Rooms
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- St Crux's Church
- The Red Tower
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Barker Tower
- King Richard II and York
- York Bombed