Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of the God Mars
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York Central Library
- Teaching the Poor
- The Battle of the Standard
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Roman Fortress
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- York Art Gallery
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Shambles
- Roman Chimney Pot
- New Shopping Centres
- Norman Window Frame