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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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Boot
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Church of St Olave
- Viking Silk Cap
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Mansion House
- Ouse Bridge
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Assembly Rooms
- The York Observatory
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The Bar Convent
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Yorkshire Museum
- New Earswick
- Amber Bead Workshop