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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Olive Oil Container
- The Horn of Ulf
- Crest of York St John College
- The Hospitium
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- York and the Holocaust
- Royal Station Hotel
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Transport Moves On
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Shambles
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Norman House
- William Etty, Artist
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Ripon College for Women
- George Leeman