Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Cawood Sword
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Dick Turpin
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York Bombed
- Olive Oil Container
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Railway Institute
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Council of Arles
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Constantius Chlorus