Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman House
- Second World War York
- View from Station Rise
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Dick Turpin
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Ouse Bridge
- Barker Tower
- Stonegate
- Walmgate Bar
- York Bombed
- The Female Prison
- York and the Holocaust
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Teaching the Poor
- The Minster after the Reformation