Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Norman Window Frame
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- King's Manor - Victorian
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Black Death
- New Shopping Centres
- A New University
- View from Station Rise
- Roman Head Pot
- The Abbot's House
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Railway Institute
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Yorkshire Museum
- York Union Gas Works
- The Cawood Sword