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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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Treasurer's House
- The Debtors' Prison
- Lendal Bridge
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Inscription to Hecules
- New Earswick
- Church of St Helen
- Anglian Cross
- Bootham Bar
- St William's Shrine
- The Norman Castle
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Greyfriars
- Medieval Prisons