Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Walk
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Statue of an Athlete
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Mansion House
- The New Theatre
- Margaret Clitherow
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Alcuin of York
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- St William's Shrine
- Church of St Olave
- The Norman House