Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Mithras and Arimanius
- York Central Library
- The York Observatory
- The Railway Institute
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The White Rose of York
- Inscription to Hecules
- King Richard II and York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Norman Minster
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The End of the Abbey
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Bar Convent
- The Mansion House