York 400 Years Ago: Reformation, religious change and social stress?

Throughout 2012 the City of York has been celebrating ‘York 800’, the eight hundredth anniversary of the granting of a royal charter to the City which increased its autonomy in local government by freeing it from the financial supervision of the royal county sheriff.

Across the University many people are engaged in research using the historic resources and collections of the City. These lectures will offer an insight into that current research, celebrate the city’s history and open it up to new questions and approaches. Many of the lectures focus on the theme of local government and civic identity, and related issues of education and justice, social reform and social welfare.

York at the end of the Tudor dynasty was still coming to terms with the changes of the Reformation which had taken place half a century before, and many institutions in the city were having to redefine their roles. Alongside these changes the city was still subject to periodic population crises with devastating social and economic effects in the short term for many of its citizens. This lecture will focus on these elements of the city's history at a period which has been identified as one of crisis generally for English towns.

Further information:
http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/autumn2012/york-400/