Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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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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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- King Edward I and York
- Mary Ward
- Feeding Roman York
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Bootham School
- York Castle Museum
- The New Theatre
- Central Methodist Chapel
- A New University
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Roman Head Pot
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York and the Holocaust
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool