Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- New Earswick
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The York Hoard
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Viking Male Grooming
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- View from Station Rise
- Bronze weights
- The Medieval Minster
- The End of the Abbey
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Viking Sword Pommel
- King Edward I and York