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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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman House
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Alcuin of York
- York Central Library
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- King Richard III and York
- Bronze weights
- Holy Trinity Church
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Mary Ward
- Roman Head Pot
- The First Minster
- Treasurer's House
- Mithras and Arimanius