Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Walk
- The Abbot's House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Anglian Cross
- First World War York
- A New Vision For York
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Statue of an Athlete
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Rowntree Park
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Church of St Helen
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Second World War York
- King Edward I and York
- The Victorian Prison Building