Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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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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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Hospitium
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Bootham School
- Fairfax House
- The George Fox Incident
- The Norman Minster
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Statue of Napoleon
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Inscription to Hecules
- Industrial Upheaval
- Teaching the Poor
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Aldwark Synagogue
- A New University
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Eric Bloodaxe