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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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Vision For York
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Bronze weights
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Holy Trinity Church
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Mary Ward
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Roman Chimney Pot
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Basilica
- The Red Tower
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- New Shopping Centres
- The Hospitium