Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Assembly Rooms
- York Art Gallery
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Hospitium
- Anglian Carving
- York Union Gas Works
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- George Leeman
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Mithras and Arimanius
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Cinema Comes to York
- Viking Boot
- Fishergate Bar
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Norman Minster