Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- The Debtors' Prison
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Fire in the Minster
- Bootham Bar
- York's Airfield
- The Medieval Castle
- Is York Cursed?
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Treasurer's House
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Judges Lodging
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Bronze weights
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions