Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The New Theatre
- Margaret Clitherow
- Teaching the Poor
- The Medieval Minster
- Bronze weights
- The Red Tower
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Victoria Bar
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- George Leeman
- York Union Gas Works
- Sixties York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- A New University