Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Hospitium
- Dick Turpin
- The Cawood Sword
- Bronze weights
- Viking Silk Cap
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Sixties York
- George Leeman
- New Shopping Centres
- The Female Prison
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Ripon College for Women
- Inscription to Hecules
- York Central Library
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- King Edward I and York