Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- View from Station Rise
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Ouse Bridge
- The Assembly Rooms
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Margaret Clitherow
- York and the Holocaust
- The York Helmet
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Viking Silk Cap
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bronze weights
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- King Richard III and York