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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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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Holocaust
- The Abbot's House
- The Retreat
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bootham School
- Rowntree Park
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Shambles
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Debtors' Prison
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York Railway Station
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- First World War York
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Statue of the God Mars
- Sixties York