Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Micklegate Bar
- The Railway Institute
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Norman House
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- York Central Library
- Walmgate Bar
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- New Earswick
- The York Observatory
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Church of St Helen
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Norman Window Frame
- Margaret Clitherow