Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham School
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- View from Station Rise
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Royal Station Hotel
- York Railway Station
- The Minster after the Reformation
- King Edward I and York
- Feeding Roman York
- Barley Hall
- The End of the Abbey
- The Norman Castle
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The York Observatory
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Amber Bead Workshop
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions