Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- A New Walk
- York in the fifteenth Century
- King Richard III and York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Mystery Plays
- Inscription to Hecules
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Norman House
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- George Leeman
- York's Medieval Synagogue