Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The York Observatory
- The County Court House
- Viking Male Grooming
- Mary Ward
- Viking Silk Cap
- View from Station Rise
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York Union Gas Works
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Holy Trinity Church
- First World War York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Basilica