Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Abbot's House
- Margaret Clitherow
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Railway Institute
- The Medieval Minster
- Holy Trinity Church
- Yorkshire Museum
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Norman Window Frame
- View from Station Rise
- The White Rose of York
- The Council of Arles
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Constantius Chlorus
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Dick Turpin