Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Church of St Helen
- The York Helmet
- Scarborough Bridge
- The First Railway Station
- York's Coat of Arms
- Industrial Upheaval
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- First World War Memorial
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Lendal Tower