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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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Female Prison
- Constantius Chlorus
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Gold Arm Ring
- The First Railway Station
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- York's Coat of Arms
- Rowntree Park
- Cinema Comes to York
- First World War Memorial
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Battle of the Standard
- The Abbot's House
- King Edward I and York