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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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Stonegate
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Bootham Bar
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- King Richard II and York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Guy Fawkes
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- St William's Shrine
- The Assembly Rooms
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Viking Male Grooming
- Gold Arm Ring