Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The 1190 Massacre
- First World War Memorial
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Feeding Roman York
- Lendal Tower
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Teaching the Poor
- King Edward II and York
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Yorkshire Museum
- Industrial Upheaval
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Minster in the 19th Century