Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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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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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Cinema Comes to York
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Vikings and Christianity
- Dick Turpin
- Inscription to Hecules
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- A New Walk
- Stonegate
- King Richard III and York
- Holy Trinity Church
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Norman Window Frame
- The First Minster
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Anglian Cross
- The Battle of the Standard