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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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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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Council of Arles
- Medieval Prisons
- The First Railway Station
- The York Helmet
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Bronze weights
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- York and the Holocaust
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bootham Bar
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Gold Finger Ring
- The Mystery Plays
- Dick Turpin
- Fishergate Bar
- Artists, Writers and Scientists