Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The York Hoard
- York's Airfield
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Bootham School
- Feeding Roman York
- Ripon College for Women
- St Crux's Church
- The Multangular Tower
- Mary Ward
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Statue of an Athlete
- The 1190 Massacre
- Constantius Chlorus
- The Debtors' Prison