Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Sixties York
- The First Railway Station
- The Retreat
- Bronze weights
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- York Art Gallery
- The Shambles
- Anglian Carving
- Dick Turpin
- Is York Cursed?
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Second World War York
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York