Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Monk Bar
- Viking Coins
- The 1190 Massacre
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Sixties York
- The Medieval Castle
- A New University
- George Leeman
- The New Theatre
- The York Observatory
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Scarborough Bridge
- The York Hoard
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier