Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Dick Turpin
- The Cawood Sword
- Second World War York
- York's Airfield
- Gold Arm Ring
- A New Vision For York
- New Earswick
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The New Theatre
- The White Rose of York
- Fishergate Bar
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Hospitium
- Stonegate
- Viking Boot
- The Basilica