Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Fire in the Minster
- Fishergate Bar
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Statue of Napoleon
- The York Observatory
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Minster Library
- The Mystery Plays
- Water Lanes
- Viking Silk Cap
- Second World War York
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The George Fox Incident
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Inscription from Fortress Gate