Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway Institute
- De Grey Rooms
- Constantius Chlorus
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Statue of the God Mars
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Council of Arles
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Silver Strap Ends
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The County Court House
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Vikings and Christianity
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- New Shopping Centres
- The Bar Convent