Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Finger Ring
- The Norman Castle
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Medieval Prisons
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Hospitium
- The Greyfriars
- Feeding Roman York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Royal Station Hotel
- Fairfax House
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Alcuin of York
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The York Observatory