Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Dick Turpin
- York and the Holocaust
- Sixties York
- The George Fox Incident
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- New Shopping Centres
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York Central Library
- Holy Trinity Church
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The End of the Abbey
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Vikings and Christianity
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The York Hoard