Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Medieval Minster
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The George Fox Incident
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Ouse Bridge
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Viking Silk Cap
- The Norman House
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'