Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- George Leeman
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Fishergate Bar
- A New Walk
- First World War York
- View from Station Rise
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Cinema Comes to York
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Monk Bar
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Minster in the 19th Century