Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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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 Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Constantius Chlorus
- Bronze weights
- The York Observatory
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Yorkshire Museum
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Holy Trinity Church
- Church of St Helen
- Viking Silk Cap
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Abbot's House
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The End of the Abbey
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions