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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bone Trial Piece
- Dick Turpin
- The First Railway Station
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Treasurer's House
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Cinema Comes to York
- The York Helmet
- Water Lanes
- William Etty, Artist
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- St Martin Le Grand Church