Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Anglian Carving
- Scarborough Bridge
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Is York Cursed?
- King Richard III and York
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Walmgate Bar
- York Union Gas Works
- Teaching the Poor
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Mansion House
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity