Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Monk Bar
- The Battle of the Standard
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Cinema Comes to York
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- De Grey Rooms
- St William's Shrine
- The First Railway Station
- Mithras and Arimanius
- A New Walk
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Hospitium
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Teaching the Poor