Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Minster Library
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Dick Turpin
- The Bar Convent
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Fishergate Bar
- Our Lady's Row
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Teaching the Poor
- St Crux's Church
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries