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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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- King Richard III and York
- Church of St Helen
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Cawood Sword
- The Female Prison
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York Garrison
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Second World War York
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Viking Sword Pommel