Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Mansion House
- The Council of Arles
- The Abbot's House
- York's Coat of Arms
- Barley Hall
- Medieval Prisons
- Treasurer's House
- The Horn of Ulf
- Dick Turpin
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Lendal Tower
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York in the fifteenth Century
- View from Station Rise
- Teaching the Poor
- King Richard III and York
- Inscription to Hecules