Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Abbot's House
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Anglian Carving
- The Retreat
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- First World War York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- St Crux's Church
- The Railway Institute
- The Cawood Sword
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Mansion House
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Norman Window Frame
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Margaret Clitherow