Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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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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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Fairfax House
- View from Station Rise
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York Union Gas Works
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Sixties York
- Lendal Tower
- The New Theatre
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The 1190 Massacre
- Viking Boot
- George Leeman