Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Norman Minster
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Yorkshire Museum
- The York Helmet
- The White Rose of York
- Lendal Tower
- Inscription to Hecules
- Constantius Chlorus
- The Black Death
- Medieval Prisons
- Middleham Jewel
- Scarborough Bridge
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York