Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Constantius Chlorus
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Mithras and Arimanius
- 62 Low Petergate
- Inscription to Hecules
- A Pipkin
- The Minster in Viking Times
- York and the Holocaust
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Statue of Napoleon
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Medieval Castle
- Monk Bar