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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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway Institute
- King Edward II and York
- Fairfax House
- York's Airfield
- Mary Ward
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Anglian Cross
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Lendal Bridge
- Minster Library
- The Black Death
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York and the Holocaust
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Medieval Chamber Pot