Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The End of the Abbey
- Micklegate Bar
- Second World War York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Olive Oil Container
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- First World War York
- York Central Library
- A Pipkin
- Feeding Roman York
- York's Coat of Arms
- Daniel Defoe's York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The County Court House
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa