Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The County Court House
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- A New Vision For York
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- De Grey Rooms
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Hospitium
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Medieval Abbey
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Medieval Minster
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Central Methodist Chapel