Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Alcuin of York
- Is York Cursed?
- Viking Coins
- Guy Fawkes
- The End of the Abbey
- The First Minster
- Fire in the Minster
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- New Shopping Centres
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Church of St Helen
- Roman Head Pot
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa