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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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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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 Crossed Keys Symbol
- Bootham School
- The Multangular Tower
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Treasurer's House
- Minster Library
- The York Helmet
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Viking Coins
- The Norman Castle
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- A New Walk
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Artists, Writers and Scientists