Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York St John in the 20th Century
- John Carr - Architect
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bootham School
- Guy Fawkes
- York in the fifteenth Century
- All Saints Church, North Street
- King Richard II and York
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Greyfriars
- The First Minster
- Is York Cursed?
- Industrial Upheaval