Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- First World War Memorial
- Minster Library
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The York Helmet
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Debtors' Prison
- William Etty, Artist
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The End of the Abbey
- Gold Arm Ring
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Guy Fawkes
- John Carr - Architect
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Statue of Napoleon