Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Guy Fawkes
- A New Vision For York
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Norman Abbey
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Vikings and Christianity
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The 1190 Massacre
- Holy Trinity Church
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Statue of the God Mars
- Sixties York
- Barley Hall
- Medieval Prisons
- Stonegate
- The Railway Institute