Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- The Abbot's House
- King Richard III and York
- The Norman Minster
- Barley Hall
- The Retreat
- York Central Library
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Constantius Chlorus
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Teaching the Poor
- York's Airfield