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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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward III and York
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Statue of Napoleon
- Norman Window Frame
- A New University
- The Council of Arles
- Royal Station Hotel
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Mystery Plays
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Church of St Helen
- Inscription to Hecules
- St William's Shrine
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart