Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Mary Ward
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Industrial Upheaval
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Debtors' Prison
- Roman Head Pot
- York and the Holocaust
- Church of St Helen
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The Basilica
- King Richard II and York