Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Female Prison
- York and the Holocaust
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- A New Walk
- Fishergate Bar
- The Mansion House
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Bar Convent
- John Carr - Architect
- Jubbergate
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Victoria Bar
- Silver Strap Ends
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers