Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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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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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Viking Silk Cap
- The First Minster
- Daniel Defoe's York
- A Pipkin
- St William's Shrine
- Barker Tower
- George Leeman
- King Richard III and York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Lendal Tower
- Anglian Carving
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Scarborough Bridge
- Victoria Bar
- Fire in the Minster
- Walmgate Bar
- The Debtors' Prison