Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Fairfax House
- Vikings and Christianity
- A Pipkin
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Roman Fortress
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Guildhall
- Ripon College for Women
- Crest of York St John College
- Church of St Helen
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Greyfriars
- Yorkshire Museum
- Mary Ward
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- St Leonard's Hospital
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions