Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Guildhall
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The White Rose of York
- Guy Fawkes
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- New Shopping Centres
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Bronze weights
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- First World War Memorial
- A Pipkin
- The Debtors' Prison
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Roman Head Pot
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The Cawood Sword
- Elizabeth Boardingham