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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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Feeding Roman York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Multangular Tower
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Fishergate Bar
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Statue of Napoleon
- York's Airfield
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- George Leeman
- The Battle of the Standard
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool