Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Coat of Arms
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Viking Boot
- St William's Shrine
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Anglian Carving
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The First Railway Station
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- A Pipkin
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Norman Abbey
- New Shopping Centres
- The Female Prison
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- New Earswick