Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The County Court House
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Roman Head Pot
- Margaret Clitherow
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The White Rose of York
- York and the Holocaust
- King Edward II and York
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Victoria Bar
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity