Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Royal Station Hotel
- The Railway Institute
- York Central Library
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- King Richard III and York
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Multangular Tower
- Silver Strap Ends
- York Castle Museum
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- New Earswick
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Minster in the 19th Century