Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
-
A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
-
Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
-
The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
-
Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
-
Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
-
Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
-
A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
-
Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Military Belt Fitting
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Clifford's Tower
- St William's Shrine
- The Debtors' Prison
- The York Observatory
- The Cawood Sword
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Eric Bloodaxe
- First World War Memorial
- William Etty, Artist
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The George Fox Incident
- The Female Prison
- Church of St Helen
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Roman Head Pot