Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bone Trial Piece
- Central Methodist Chapel
- A New University
- Sixties York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The York Hoard
- Holy Trinity Church
- William Etty, Artist
- King Richard II and York
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The Roman Fortress
- The Battle of the Standard
- The County Court House
- York Union Gas Works
- The Bar Convent
- De Grey Rooms
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- New Shopping Centres