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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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward II and York
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Guy Fawkes
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Debtors' Prison
- John Carr - Architect
- Statue of an Athlete
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Monk Bar
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Is York Cursed?
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The First Minster
- The Norman Abbey