Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman Minster
- Barker Tower
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Church of St Olave
- Middleham Jewel
- Cinema Comes to York
- York and the Holocaust
- York Art Gallery
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The George Fox Incident
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- A New Walk
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Jubbergate
- The Greyfriars
- Royal Station Hotel