Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The White Rose of York
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Is York Cursed?
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Sixties York
- Central Methodist Chapel
- King Richard III and York
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Mansion House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- A New University
- The Guildhall
- The Multangular Tower
- Vikings and Christianity
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- George Leeman