Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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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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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway Institute
- Crest of York St John College
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Transport Moves On
- Cinema Comes to York
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- York and the Holocaust
- The Guildhall
- William Etty, Artist
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Multangular Tower
- Alcuin of York
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Central Methodist Chapel