Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Arm Ring
- Bone Trial Piece
- A New Walk
- Sixties York
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Viking Male Grooming
- Dick Turpin
- Medieval Prisons
- Rowntree Park
- Roman Chimney Pot
- Minster Library
- Barley Hall
- Inscription to Hecules