Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman House
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Bronze weights
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Cawood Sword
- York and the Holocaust
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- William Etty, Artist
- The Assembly Rooms
- King Richard II and York
- Bootham Bar