Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Victoria Bar
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Church of St Olave
- King's Manor - Victorian
- King Richard III and York
- The Debtors' Prison
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Middleham Jewel
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Water Lanes
- Norman Window Frame
- William Etty, Artist
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Ripon College for Women
- Bootham Bar
- York Bombed