Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The 1190 Massacre
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Bootham Bar
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Scarborough Bridge
- Treasurer's House
- York Union Gas Works
- Viking Boot
- Viking Male Grooming
- Central Methodist Chapel
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- King Edward III and York
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Barker Tower