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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of Napoleon
- Ripon College for Women
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The York Helmet
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The George Fox Incident
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Horn of Ulf
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Medieval Abbey
- Feeding Roman York
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Constantius Chlorus