Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Medieval Prisons
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Council of Arles
- Sixties York
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The Medieval Castle
- The Battle of the Standard
- Cinema Comes to York
- Guy Fawkes
- Fire in the Minster