Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Yorkshire Museum
- Silver Strap Ends
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The County Court House
- Victoria Bar
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Roman Head Pot
- Minster Library
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The Cawood Sword
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Bootham Bar
- Margaret Clitherow
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning