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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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Roman Fortress
- York Art Gallery
- Viking Coins
- View from Station Rise
- Church of St Olave
- York Central Library
- King Richard III and York
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The End of the Abbey
- Teaching the Poor
- 62 Low Petergate
- Constantius Chlorus
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Bootham School
- Aldwark Synagogue