Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Rowntree Park
- Sixties York
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York and the Holocaust
- Holy Trinity Church
- York in the fifteenth Century
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Norman House
- Middleham Jewel
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- York Art Gallery
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York Bombed