Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The Medieval Abbey
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- King Richard II and York
- Jubbergate
- The Multangular Tower
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Aldwark Synagogue
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Norman Window Frame
- Feeding Roman York
- The Norman House
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St William's Shrine
- The Greyfriars