Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- King Edward III and York
- St Crux's Church
- The Mansion House
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Yorkshire Museum
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The New Theatre
- The Debtors' Prison
- Skeldergate Bridge
- York Bombed
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Stonegate