Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Male Grooming
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Sixties York
- Treasurer's House
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Viking Silk Cap
- York and the Holocaust
- Inscription to Hecules
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Clifford's Tower
- Anglian Carving
- Walmgate Bar
- King Edward II and York
- Viking Boot
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The York Helmet