Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- A New Vision For York
- The Debtors' Prison
- Sixties York
- York Central Library
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Lendal Bridge
- Mary Ward
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Statue of an Athlete
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- York Garrison
- The First Railway Station
- De Grey Rooms
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Mithras and Arimanius