Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Walmgate Bar
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Debtors' Prison
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Guildhall
- The Greyfriars
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The York Hoard
- York Union Gas Works
- Ripon College for Women
- Bronze weights
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Statue of an Athlete
- The Hospitium
- Scarborough Bridge