Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Margaret Clitherow
- Central Methodist Chapel
- York and the Holocaust
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The First Minster
- St William's Shrine
- Church of St Helen
- A Pipkin
- The Mansion House
- The Horn of Ulf
- The George Fox Incident
- Silver Strap Ends
- Cinema Comes to York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Middleham Jewel
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York's first historian: Francis Drake