Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Greyfriars
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- De Grey Rooms
- Roman Head Pot
- The Red Tower
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- King Edward II and York
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Roman Fortress
- The Hospitium
- Bronze weights
- New Earswick
- Barley Hall
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- York Union Gas Works
- York Bombed
- Fishergate Bar
- York and the Holocaust