Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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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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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Bone Trial Piece
- John Carr - Architect
- York's Coat of Arms
- St Leonard's Hospital
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Basilica
- St Crux's Church
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Mary Ward
- Vikings and Christianity
- Barker Tower
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Statue of the God Mars
- The White Rose of York
- Holy Trinity Church