Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Viking Silk Cap
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- New Earswick
- The York Observatory
- A New Vision For York
- The Norman Abbey
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Female Prison
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Barley Hall
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- King Richard II and York