Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Guy Fawkes
- Middleham Jewel
- Minster Library
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Norman Abbey
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The White Rose of York
- Rowntree Park
- Statue of the God Mars
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Jubbergate
- The Shambles
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Roman Head Pot
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)