Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Mary Ward
- New Shopping Centres
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Teaching the Poor
- Bootham School
- The Medieval Castle
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Sixties York
- Anglian Carving
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Silver Strap Ends
- Bootham Bar
- Bronze weights
- Statue of the God Mars
- Viking Silk Cap