Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- Jubbergate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- King Richard III and York
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Roman Fortress
- The County Court House
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Is York Cursed?
- The Railway Institute
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Gold Arm Ring
- 62 Low Petergate
- A New Walk