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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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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Retreat
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Monk Bar
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Dick Turpin
- Micklegate Bar
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bone Trial Piece
- The 1190 Massacre
- The First Railway Station
- Is York Cursed?
- Treasurer's House
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Glazed Medieval Jug