Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Second World War York
- The York Observatory
- The Mystery Plays
- The Assembly Rooms
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Battle of the Standard
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Horn of Ulf
- William Etty, Artist
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Viking Boot
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions