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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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Minster Library
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Sixties York
- First World War Memorial
- First World War York
- Vikings and Christianity
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Viking Silk Cap
- York Garrison
- The Norman Abbey
- The Shambles
- Viking Coins
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- York's Airfield
- Fishergate Bar
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Fire in the Minster
- Jewbury Cemetery