Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Silk Cap
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Inscription to Hecules
- Amber Bead Workshop
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Sixties York
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Monk Bar
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Medieval Castle
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Medieval Prisons
- Treasurer's House