Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Bootham Bar
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Medieval Abbey
- New Earswick
- The Norman Abbey
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Statue of the God Mars
- York Central Library
- Medieval Prisons
- Guy Fawkes
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The New Theatre
- York Garrison
- The Greyfriars