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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Roman Fortress
- Bronze weights
- The First Railway Station
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- A Pipkin
- Victoria Bar
- The First Minster
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Monk Bar
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- The Norman Castle
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Elizabeth Boardingham