Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Mansion House
- Bronze weights
- The 1190 Massacre
- George Leeman
- King Edward III and York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Middleham Jewel
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Roman Head Pot
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- New Earswick
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- A New University