Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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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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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Female Prison
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Mystery Plays
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- King Edward III and York
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Viking Silk Cap
- The York Observatory
- Military Belt Fitting
- Victoria Bar
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Hospitium
- Margaret Clitherow
- King Richard III and York