Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- 62 Low Petergate
- The New Theatre
- The Cawood Sword
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Walmgate Bar
- Vikings and Christianity
- King Edward I and York
- Barker Tower
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- St Crux's Church
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Debtors' Prison
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Black Death
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- York Railway Station
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Hair of a Roman Girl