Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- George Leeman
- Fishergate Bar
- York and the Holocaust
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Second World War York
- Medieval Prisons
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- York Railway Station
- Minster Library
- Feeding Roman York
- St Crux's Church
- The Mansion House
- Statue of the God Mars
- Victoria Bar
- The County Court House
- The 1190 Massacre
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- York's first historian: Francis Drake