Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Rowntree Park
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Barley Hall
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- A Pipkin
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- De Grey Rooms
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Constantius Chlorus
- Vikings and Christianity
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Cinema Comes to York
- John Carr - Architect