Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Central Methodist Chapel
- King Richard II and York
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Dick Turpin
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Lendal Tower
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Yorkshire Museum
- William Etty, Artist
- The Red Tower
- York's Coat of Arms
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Black Death
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning