Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St William's Shrine
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Female Prison
- Viking Silk Cap
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The York Observatory
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Medieval Abbey
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Is York Cursed?
- Minster Library
- The Red Tower
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Black Death