Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Olave
- Anglian Carving
- King Edward I and York
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The Medieval Castle
- York and the Holocaust
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Railway Institute
- Jubbergate
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Bootham School
- Water Lanes
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey