Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Alcuin of York
- The Basilica
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Bronze weights
- St William's Shrine
- The York Helmet
- York's Airfield
- The Horn of Ulf
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- King Richard III and York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Minster in the 18th Century