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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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Silk Cap
- Viking Male Grooming
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York's Coat of Arms
- King Edward III and York
- Second World War York
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Bootham Bar
- The Roman Fortress
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Basilica
- Jewbury Cemetery
- York and the Holocaust
- The Assembly Rooms
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)