Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The County Court House
- Fairfax House
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Roman Head Pot
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Second World War York
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Industrial Upheaval
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- De Grey Rooms
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- King Edward I and York
- York Bombed
- Judges Lodging
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York and the Holocaust
- Statue of the God Mars