Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- William Etty, Artist
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Battle of the Standard
- The York Helmet
- The County Court House
- Minster Library
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Norman Abbey
- York and the Holocaust
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Monk Bar
- Silver Strap Ends
- Mary Ward
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- King Richard II and York
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries