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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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Holy Trinity Church
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Barker Tower
- New Shopping Centres
- York Castle Museum
- The Mansion House
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Roman Fortress
- The Minster after the Reformation
- King Edward III and York
- Anglian Carving
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Inscription to Hecules
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York and the Holocaust
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers