Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Bone Trial Piece
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- York Garrison
- Crest of York St John College
- The Battle of the Standard
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Fire in the Minster
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- King Edward III and York
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Minster Library
- Sixties York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers