Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Monk Bar
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The White Rose of York
- Second World War York
- The Medieval Castle
- York Union Gas Works
- The York Helmet
- The Norman Abbey
- The Debtors' Prison
- Is York Cursed?
- Bone Trial Piece
- Barley Hall
- Crest of York St John College
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- King Edward II and York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Glazed Medieval Jug