Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The York Observatory
- St William's Shrine
- Viking Male Grooming
- Bone Trial Piece
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The 1190 Massacre
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Holy Trinity Church
- De Grey Rooms
- Royal Station Hotel
- Second World War York
- Viking Coins
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Mary Ward
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Monk Bar
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York