Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Stonegate
- The Medieval Minster
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- York Union Gas Works
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- York and the Holocaust
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Military Belt Fitting
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The New Theatre
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- First World War York
- The Multangular Tower
- Aldwark Synagogue