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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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- York's Coat of Arms
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Anglian Cross
- Stonegate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York Central Library
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Second World War York
- The Roman Fortress
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Viking Silk Cap
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Our Lady's Row