Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Industrial Upheaval
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- William Etty, Artist
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Barker Tower
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Olive Oil Container
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- First World War York
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Amber Bead Workshop
- The Roman Fortress
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- A New University