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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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- The Council of Arles
- Minster Library
- Judges Lodging
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Water Lanes
- King Richard III and York
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- St Crux's Church
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The New Theatre
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York