Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Mansion House
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Second World War York
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The York Observatory
- George Leeman
- Clifford's Tower
- The Bar Convent
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- St William's Shrine
- Military Belt Fitting
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Bootham School