Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- View from Station Rise
- Anglian Carving
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- De Grey Rooms
- Military Belt Fitting
- Inscription to Hecules
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Jubbergate
- York and the Holocaust
- York Art Gallery
- The Basilica
- A New University
- York Railway Station
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Guy Fawkes