Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Dick Turpin
- York Garrison
- Viking Boot
- The Norman House
- The Medieval Minster
- Norman Window Frame
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Bronze weights
- The New Theatre
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The White Rose of York
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Battle of the Standard
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Statue of the God Mars
- Alcuin of York
- The First Railway Station