Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Cinema Comes to York
- King Edward I and York
- St William's Shrine
- Church of St Olave
- All Saints Church, North Street
- View from Station Rise
- Treasurer's House
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Debtors' Prison
- Viking Silk Cap
- Vikings and Christianity
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Industrial Upheaval
- The First Railway Station
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Viking Boot