Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Jubbergate
- York Union Gas Works
- York Art Gallery
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The York Helmet
- Gold Arm Ring
- Viking Boot
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Feeding Roman York
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Middleham Jewel
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop