Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Bombed
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Viking Male Grooming
- All Saints Church, North Street
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Guildhall
- Rowntree Park
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Alcuin of York
- The Greyfriars