Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- St Crux's Church
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Mystery Plays
- The New Theatre
- Bootham School
- Alcuin of York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Female Prison
- Sixties York
- Vikings and Christianity