Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Coat of Arms
- York Union Gas Works
- Margaret Clitherow
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Lendal Tower
- Barker Tower
- The 1190 Massacre
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Guildhall
- Inscription to Hecules
- Our Lady's Row
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Walmgate Bar
- Medieval Prisons
- Mithras and Arimanius