Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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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...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Olave
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The York Observatory
- The Norman Minster
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Guildhall
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Medieval Minster
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Fire in the Minster
- Clifford's Tower