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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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Anglian Carving
- The Black Death
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The End of the Abbey
- Fishergate Bar
- Viking Silk Cap
- King Edward III and York
- The Female Prison
- Medieval Prisons
- Barley Hall
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Medieval Minster
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Barker Tower
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Teaching the Poor