Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ouse Bridge
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- St Crux's Church
- York Bombed
- View from Station Rise
- Silver Strap Ends
- Is York Cursed?
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The George Fox Incident
- The Debtors' Prison
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Minster after the Reformation
- George Leeman
- The Red Tower
- Anglian Cross
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Second World War York