Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Mary Ward
- Feeding Roman York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Gold Arm Ring
- The Medieval Minster
- John Carr - Architect
- St William's Shrine
- Mithras and Arimanius
- York Castle Museum
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- 62 Low Petergate
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Aldwark Synagogue