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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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Mary Ward
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Basilica
- Vikings and Christianity
- Statue of an Athlete
- New Shopping Centres
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Guy Fawkes
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The York Observatory
- Cumberland House, King's Staith