Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Water Lanes
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Dick Turpin
- King Richard III and York
- St William's Shrine
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Lendal Bridge
- Judges Lodging
- Is York Cursed?
- John Carr - Architect
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Hospitium
- Bootham School
- Inscription to Hecules