Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Walmgate Bar
- Jubbergate
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Fire in the Minster
- Ripon College for Women
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Female Prison
- New Shopping Centres
- York and the Holocaust
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- A New University
- The Norman Minster
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Statue of an Athlete
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Industrial Upheaval
- Bone Trial Piece