Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Alcuin of York
- The Council of Arles
- Viking Coins
- The George Fox Incident
- Anglian Cross
- King Edward I and York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Lendal Bridge
- The Debtors' Prison
- York Central Library
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York Bombed
- The Basilica
- The Mystery Plays
- York and the Holocaust
- Roman Head Pot
- Cinema Comes to York