Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- King Edward III and York
- Yorkshire Museum
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Anglian Carving
- St Crux's Church
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Norman Minster
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The Norman Abbey
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Female Prison