Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- View from Station Rise
- Fire in the Minster
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The New Theatre
- Royal Station Hotel
- Industrial Upheaval
- Alcuin of York
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The Abbot's House
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Medieval Prisons
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Anglian Cross
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Council of Arles
- Mithras and Arimanius