Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Horn of Ulf
- First World War Memorial
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- The Norman Minster
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The End of the Abbey
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The York Hoard
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Transport Moves On
- York Bombed
- The Bar Convent
- The New Theatre
- Bronze weights
- Olive Oil Container
- Tombstone of Julia Velva