Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- John Carr - Architect
- The White Rose of York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Roman Fortress
- Viking Silk Cap
- The Abbot's House
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- York and the Holocaust
- The York Observatory
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Middleham Jewel
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The York Helmet
- The Bar Convent
- The Norman House