Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Statue of the God Mars
- View from Station Rise
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The York Hoard
- Bootham Bar
- The George Fox Incident
- The Assembly Rooms
- The Red Tower
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Debtors' Prison
- First World War Memorial
- The Mystery Plays
- A New University
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa