Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Victorian Prison Building
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Medieval Minster
- Rowntree Park
- The Battle of the Standard
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York Castle Museum
- Fire in the Minster
- Transport Moves On
- Alcuin of York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Ouse Bridge
- New Earswick
- The George Fox Incident
- Second World War York
- Jewbury Cemetery