Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Industrial Upheaval
- A New Vision For York
- A New Walk
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Mansion House
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Teaching the Poor
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Micklegate Bar
- The End of the Abbey
- The Medieval Minster
- The York Observatory
- John Carr - Architect
- Anglian Carving
- The Hospitium
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Treasurer's House