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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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of the God Mars
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Water Lanes
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Medieval Abbey
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Royal Station Hotel
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Black Death
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Teaching the Poor
- The Norman House
- Judges Lodging
- The Guildhall