Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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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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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Helen
- York Bombed
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Female Prison
- The Bar Convent
- The Norman House
- William Etty, Artist
- Rowntree Park
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- St Crux's Church
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Red Tower
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Assembly Rooms
- View from Station Rise
- Eric Bloodaxe