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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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Basilica
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York Castle Museum
- King Richard II and York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Church of St Olave
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Constantius Chlorus
- The White Rose of York
- Rowntree Park
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Statue of an Athlete
- Norman Window Frame
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Minster Library
- Anglian Burial Vessel