Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York in the fifteenth Century
- First World War York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Bootham Bar
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Church of St Olave
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- A Pipkin
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Vikings and Christianity
- Barley Hall
- Rowntree Park
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Inscription to Hecules
- Anglian Burial Vessel