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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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rebuilt in Stone
- York Central Library
- Aldwark Synagogue
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The New Theatre
- The Bar Convent
- The End of the Abbey
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Bone Trial Piece
- York Bombed
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Feeding Roman York
- King Richard II and York
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