Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fairfax House
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Central Methodist Chapel
- York and the Holocaust
- First World War York
- Gold Arm Ring
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Norman Window Frame
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- First World War Memorial
- Church of St Helen
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Cawood Sword
- The York Observatory
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Red Tower