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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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The York Observatory
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Military Belt Fitting
- New Shopping Centres
- The Shambles
- Gold Arm Ring
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Medieval Abbey
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Minster in Viking Times
- York Bombed
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Debtors' Prison
- Viking Coins
- The Railway Institute
- Sixties York
- Vikings and Christianity