Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Jewbury Cemetery
- St Crux's Church
- Crest of York St John College
- The Debtors' Prison
- Viking Boot
- Victoria Bar
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The 1190 Massacre
- Treasurer's House
- Statue of the God Mars
- The End of the Abbey
- The Battle of the Standard
- Dick Turpin
- York and the Holocaust
- York Central Library
- Margaret Clitherow
- Viking Male Grooming