Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- The Medieval Minster
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Jubbergate
- Teaching the Poor
- Water Lanes
- The Shambles
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Female Prison
- Sixties York
- The York Hoard
- York Union Gas Works
- The Abbot's House
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Railway Institute