Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Holocaust
- The Medieval Abbey
- York Railway Station
- 62 Low Petergate
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Is York Cursed?
- Mary Ward
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Statue of Napoleon
- Barley Hall
- Jubbergate
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Artists, Writers and Scientists