Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- First World War York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Fairfax House
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- King Edward III and York
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Treasurer's House
- York Castle Museum
- Gold Arm Ring
- The York Helmet
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Statue of the God Mars
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Medieval Castle
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle