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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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Basilica
- Industrial Upheaval
- Inscription to Hecules
- King Edward II and York
- St Crux's Church
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Constantius Chlorus
- The County Court House
- Minster Library
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Monk Bar
- York's Airfield
- Fairfax House
- New Earswick
- 62 Low Petergate
- Sixties York