Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ripon College for Women
- The Victorian Prison Building
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York Garrison
- De Grey Rooms
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Industrial Upheaval
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The First Railway Station
- Viking Coins
- The Medieval Castle
- York and the Holocaust
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Greyfriars