Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Bar
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- York Garrison
- The Multangular Tower
- New Earswick
- Gold Finger Ring
- New Shopping Centres
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Inscription to Hecules
- Bone Trial Piece
- Clifford's Tower
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Dick Turpin
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York in the fifteenth Century