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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Our Lady's Row
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Debtors' Prison
- Bootham School
- The Mansion House
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The New Theatre
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Middleham Jewel
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Viking Coins
- The Medieval Minster
- The White Rose of York
- Viking Male Grooming
- Transport Moves On
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head