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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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Our Lady's Row
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Margaret Clitherow
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- King Edward I and York
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The Norman Castle
- John Carr - Architect
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The End of the Abbey
- The York Observatory
- Constantius Chlorus