Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bootham Bar
- Barley Hall
- The York Helmet
- Bootham School
- Sixties York
- The Female Prison
- Scarborough Bridge
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The Hospitium
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Barker Tower
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- First World War Memorial
- The First Minster
- The White Rose of York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl