Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New University
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Hospitium
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Greyfriars
- The Railway Institute
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Norman Minster
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Gold Finger Ring
- The First Minster
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The County Court House
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Gold Arm Ring
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector