Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Military Belt Fitting
- Sixties York
- Judges Lodging
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Fire in the Minster
- Monk Bar
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Bootham Bar
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Bone Trial Piece
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church