Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Treasurer's House
- Guy Fawkes
- Industrial Upheaval
- King Edward II and York
- Minster Library
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Guildhall
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Viking Sword Pommel
- York Union Gas Works
- Water Lanes
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Black Death