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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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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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 York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Railway Station
- The Abbot's House
- The Mansion House
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Feeding Roman York
- Micklegate Bar
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Water Lanes
- Alcuin of York
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The Greyfriars
- Mary Ward
- The Assembly Rooms
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Bootham School
- Roman Chimney Pot