Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Barker Tower
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Gold Arm Ring
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- King Richard III and York
- The Minster after the Reformation
- King's Manor - Victorian
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Is York Cursed?
- Anglian Carving
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- George Leeman
- The George Fox Incident
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The 1190 Massacre
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre