Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Industrial Upheaval
- Barker Tower
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Norman Minster
- The Hospitium
- The First Railway Station
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Alcuin of York
- St William's Shrine
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The First Minster
- York's Airfield
- First World War Memorial
- Cinema Comes to York