Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Multangular Tower
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Statue of an Athlete
- The Railway Institute
- King Edward I and York
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Crest of York St John College
- John Carr - Architect
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Viking Coins
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- King's Manor - Victorian
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Cumberland House, King's Staith