Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- King Edward I and York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- York and the Holocaust
- The Norman Abbey
- Inscription to Hecules
- Bronze weights
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Anglian Carving
- Monk Bar
- York Railway Station
- Ouse Bridge
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Rowntree Park
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Fire in the Minster