Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Central Library
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Jubbergate
- Dick Turpin
- A Pipkin
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Daniel Defoe's York
- St William's Shrine
- The Norman Castle
- A New Vision For York
- The Norman Abbey
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Norman House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Medieval Prisons
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'