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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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway Institute
- The Medieval Minster
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Church of St Olave
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Scarborough Bridge
- Fishergate Bar
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Norman Abbey
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Norman House
- York Garrison
- Walmgate Bar
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Ouse Bridge
- The Shambles