Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree Park
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Debtors' Prison
- George Leeman
- 62 Low Petergate
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- All Saints Church, North Street
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The Railway Institute
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Norman Window Frame