Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The New Theatre
- The Hospitium
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The White Rose of York
- The Roman Fortress
- The George Fox Incident
- Rowntree Park
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Water Lanes
- Viking Silk Cap
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- York Castle Museum
- The Medieval Castle
- Feeding Roman York