Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Margaret Clitherow
- Scarborough Bridge
- York Art Gallery
- First World War Memorial
- York's Airfield
- King Richard III and York
- The Battle of the Standard
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Water Lanes
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- York Central Library
- The George Fox Incident
- The Norman Abbey
- A New University