Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Inscription to Hecules
- York Bombed
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Constantius Chlorus
- Industrial Upheaval
- Crest of York St John College
- Walmgate Bar
- The Debtors' Prison
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Clifford's Tower
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Roman Chimney Pot
- Military Belt Fitting
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Daniel Defoe's York