Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Bootham Bar
- Sixties York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Victoria Bar
- The Medieval Abbey
- The York Helmet
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The George Fox Incident
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Mystery Plays
- William Etty, Artist
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Skeldergate Bridge