Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- A New Walk
- The Norman Castle
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Red Tower
- William Etty, Artist
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Female Prison
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Bronze weights
- The Multangular Tower