Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- York's Coat of Arms
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Guy Fawkes
- Lendal Tower
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Mansion House
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Medieval Prisons
- The Roman Fortress
- The Victorian Prison Building
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Horn of Ulf
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Bootham School