Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Crest of York St John College
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Red Tower
- Inscription to Hecules
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Abbot's House
- The Victorian Prison Building
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- King Edward II and York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- York Union Gas Works
- A New University
- The Railway Institute
- Middleham Jewel
- The Mystery Plays