Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Is York Cursed?
- Cinema Comes to York
- Transport Moves On
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Mary Ward
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The End of the Abbey
- The Mansion House
- Military Belt Fitting
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Statue of the God Mars
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window