Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Barley Hall
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- A New University
- Monk Bar
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Fairfax House
- Is York Cursed?
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- George Leeman
- Fishergate Bar
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Red Tower
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The White Rose of York
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers