Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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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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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Bombed
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- New Shopping Centres
- Holy Trinity Church
- The New Theatre
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Sixties York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The George Fox Incident
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- King Edward I and York
- Stonegate
- The Abbot's House
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- York's first historian: Francis Drake