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 Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Sixties York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Medieval Prisons
- Micklegate Bar
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The George Fox Incident
- Mary Ward
- The Mansion House
- Transport Moves On
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The First Railway Station
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Bone Trial Piece
- Constantius Chlorus