Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Transport Moves On
- New Earswick
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Walmgate Bar
- Rebuilt in Stone
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- 62 Low Petergate
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Medieval Castle
- Fishergate Bar
- Industrial Upheaval
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Middleham Jewel
- First World War Memorial