Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Minster Library
- The Mystery Plays
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Treasurer's House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- York in the fifteenth Century
- New Shopping Centres
- Water Lanes
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway