Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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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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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Victoria Bar
- A Pipkin
- The White Rose of York
- York and the Holocaust
- First World War Memorial
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The First Minster
- Viking Sword Pommel
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Cinema Comes to York
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Margaret Clitherow
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- A New Vision For York
- New Earswick
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning