Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Statue of an Athlete
- Water Lanes
- Statue of the God Mars
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Walmgate Bar
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- A New Walk
- Holy Trinity Church
- Anglian Carving
- The Minster after the Reformation
- A Pipkin
- Treasurer's House
- Royal Station Hotel
- Eric Bloodaxe