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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of the Standard
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Feeding Roman York
- Rowntree Park
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Red Tower
- George Leeman
- St Crux's Church
- Church of St Olave
- Scarborough Bridge
- Statue of the God Mars
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Second World War York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- York and the Holocaust
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Viking Sword Pommel
- The Basilica