Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Bootham Bar
- Ripon College for Women
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Walmgate Bar
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Roman Head Pot
- York and the Holocaust
- The York Observatory
- Victoria Bar
- The White Rose of York
- York Castle Museum
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Red Tower
- The County Court House