Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Silk Cap
- Church of St Olave
- Industrial Upheaval
- The Medieval Abbey
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Mithras and Arimanius
- First World War York
- Dick Turpin
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Holy Trinity Church
- A Pipkin
- Ouse Bridge
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Horn of Ulf
- York in the fifteenth Century