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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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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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...
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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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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The 1190 Massacre
- Middleham Jewel
- Lendal Bridge
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Is York Cursed?
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- A New Vision For York
- York's Airfield
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Council of Arles
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Female Prison
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre