Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- William Etty, Artist
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The York Hoard
- The Railway Institute
- St William's Shrine
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Mary Ward
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- George Leeman
- Fairfax House
- The Hospitium
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Margaret Clitherow
- The First Minster
- Lendal Tower
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions