Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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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...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Holy Trinity Church
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Gold Finger Ring
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Ripon College for Women
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Statue of Napoleon
- Fairfax House
- Anglian Carving
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Basilica
- The 1190 Massacre
- A Pipkin
- The Norman Minster
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York Bombed
- The Roman Fortress