Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Military Belt Fitting
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Battle of the Standard
- Second World War York
- Rowntree Park
- The First Railway Station
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Royal Station Hotel
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- First World War York
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- King Richard III and York
- The County Court House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers