Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Norman House
- York Bombed
- Anglian Cross
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- St Leonard's Hospital
- King Richard III and York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- New Earswick
- The Battle of the Standard
- Mary Ward
- Viking Boot
- Margaret Clitherow
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York