Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Minster Library
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- New Shopping Centres
- Water Lanes
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Norman Castle
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Viking Male Grooming
- York Union Gas Works
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- A New Walk
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- York Central Library
- The End of the Abbey
- Treasurer's House