Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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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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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Anglian Carving
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- York Castle Museum
- The End of the Abbey
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Bar Convent
- Transport Moves On
- First World War York
- Is York Cursed?
- Fishergate Bar
- Medieval Prisons
- View from Station Rise
- Viking Male Grooming
- Viking Boot
- New Shopping Centres
- Judges Lodging
- York Bombed