Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Minster Library
- Sixties York
- The Shambles
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Industrial Upheaval
- Stonegate
- The Medieval Abbey
- Middleham Jewel
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Fishergate Bar
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Amber Bead Workshop