Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Silver Strap Ends
- The County Court House
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Assembly Rooms
- Inscription to Hecules
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- First World War York
- 62 Low Petergate
- George Leeman
- Ripon College for Women
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Micklegate Bar
- The Retreat
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Transport Moves On