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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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- Statue of the God Mars
- The Shambles
- William Etty, Artist
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Debtors' Prison
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Dick Turpin
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Assembly Rooms
- Barley Hall
- The Minster after the Reformation
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The York Observatory