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 Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Coat of Arms
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Norman Minster
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Is York Cursed?
- Dick Turpin
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Statue of the God Mars
- Alcuin of York
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- King Edward II and York
- King Edward I and York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Medieval Minster
- A Pipkin
- The Pilgrimage of Grace