Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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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 Victorian Prison Building
- The First Railway Station
- Micklegate Bar
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Treasurer's House
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- York Railway Station
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Mystery Plays
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Hospitium
- The Norman Minster
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Lendal Tower
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse