Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of an Athlete
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Hospitium
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- York's Airfield
- Barker Tower
- Sixties York
- Water Lanes
- The Multangular Tower
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The York Hoard
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Abbot's House
- The New Theatre
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- John Carr - Architect