Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Railway Institute
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- St Crux's Church
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Scarborough Bridge
- Sixties York
- The Mansion House
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Minster Library
- The Retreat
- The End of the Abbey
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Constantius Chlorus
- The Shambles
- York Bombed