Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of the Standard
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Viking Sword Pommel
- New Earswick
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Female Prison
- Mary Ward
- Industrial Upheaval
- Fairfax House
- Anglian Cross
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The Medieval Minster
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York Central Library
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa