Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York Castle Museum
- Sixties York
- Ouse Bridge
- Minster Library
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The York Hoard
- The New Theatre
- The Battle of the Standard
- Victoria Bar
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The County Court House
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Micklegate Bar