Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Silver Strap Ends
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Amber Bead Workshop
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Medieval Minster
- Dick Turpin
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The 1190 Massacre
- York and the Holocaust
- The Horn of Ulf
- Anglian Carving
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Female Prison
- Barker Tower
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The York Observatory