Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The Norman Abbey
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The End of the Abbey
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Middleham Jewel
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Anglian Cross
- The Cawood Sword
- The Medieval Minster
- The Battle of the Standard
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- William Etty, Artist
- York Bombed
- Olive Oil Container
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Victorian Prison Building