Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Dick Turpin
- The George Fox Incident
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bronze weights
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Statue of the God Mars
- Vikings and Christianity
- York Castle Museum
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- First World War Memorial
- Roman Head Pot
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Lendal Tower
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Walmgate Bar