Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York Union Gas Works
- Feeding Roman York
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- King Edward III and York
- St William's Shrine
- The First Minster
- Treasurer's House
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Ripon College for Women
- York Garrison
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool