Borthwick Institute for Archives

Historic 'Guides to the Archive Collections'

Current listings

For more up to date information about our holdings please see How to search our online catalogues.

The Borthwick published the first complete guide to its holdings in 1973.

This was followed by two supplements, in 1980 and in 1997.

Although these are now out of date, and some of the arrangement of the archives has been, or will be, superseded, they are still useful as a historical record of how our holdings have developed since 1953.

Guide and supplements

David M. Smith, A Guide to the Archive Collections in the Borthwick Institute (PDF , 22,138kb) (Borthwick Texts and Calendars, Records of the Northern Province 1, University of York, 1973)
David M. Smith, A Supplementary Guide to the Archive Collections in the Borthwick Institute (PDF , 7,927kb) (Borthwick Texts and Calendars, Records of the Northern Province 7, University of York, 1980)
Alexandrina Buchanan, A Guide to Archival Accessions at The Borthwick Institute 1981-1996 (PDF , 8,992kb) (Borthwick List and Index 19, University of York, 1997)

Since 1995, information about new accessions to the archive has been submitted on a yearly basis to The National Archives.

To view our accessions by year and see how our holdings have grown visit the ARCHON directory.