Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Assembly Rooms
- Fairfax House
- First World War Memorial
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The New Theatre
- New Earswick
- The York Observatory
- A New Vision For York
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Cinema Comes to York
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Feeding Roman York
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Stonegate