Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Arm Ring
- The Norman Minster
- The Greyfriars
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Church of St Olave
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The York Hoard
- New Shopping Centres
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Transport Moves On
- The End of the Abbey
- The Medieval Minster
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- First World War Memorial
- The Female Prison
- New Earswick