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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- York Central Library
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Norman House
- The End of the Abbey
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Crest of York St John College
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Lendal Bridge
- Is York Cursed?
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Lendal Tower