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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- John Carr - Architect
- The Mansion House
- St Crux's Church
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Norman Minster
- The Retreat
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- St William's Shrine
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Viking Coins
- Micklegate Bar
- Artists, Writers and Scientists