Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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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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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- William Etty, Artist
- Bone Trial Piece
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York's Airfield
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Medieval Prisons
- The Bar Convent
- King's Manor - Victorian
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Greyfriars
- Treasurer's House
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The New Theatre