What's New in the Archives - Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York

What's New in the Archives? Recent Accessions at the Borthwick Institute

The Borthwick Institute typically receives around 80 new accessions a year, so our holdings are continually growing. Whilst some of these are additions to existing archives, others are completely new.

The archives on display in this exhibition are new accessions received between 2010 and 2016, which reflect the fascinating and wide-ranging nature of the Borthwick’s holdings. They cover war, peace, protest, TV, printing, healthcare, colonial rule, apartheid, parks, nature reserves, gardens and more!

Take a tour through the exhibition, and world history, to sample the delights of the papers of the Gold Family of Heslington, Alfred Peacock, Michael Young, Marks and Gran, Barry Took, the University of York, Sessions of York, The York Dispensary, Mabel Leaf, the Earls of Halifax, Rowntree’s, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and James Hornby to find out about life in Heslington, how to make cider, the horrors of war, the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, some well-known TV shows, student protest at the University of York, the printing business in York, health care for York’s poor, what happened to the schoolboy from Wath who couldn’t learn, colonial India, the generosity of Rowntree and Co., and just how the gardens of Heslington Hall were kept so immaculate.

This exhibition can be found in the Borthwick Exhibition Area from the 3rd January until April 2016