2024 news

We are now inviting applications for History of Art Graduate Teaching Positions for the 2025/6 academic year.

How can attention to artistic practices and visual interventions from across the global mosaic of local contexts contribute meaningfully to the decentring of hegemonic narratives and research on art and HIV/AIDS? What new configurations of work from across both global south and north are necessary to re-assess the histories of this epidemic, and intervene in its ongoing present? This conference invites papers that examine the state of the field in the study of art, visual culture and HIV/AIDS, presenting recent or ongoing research projects that seek to complicate understandings of this vast area of contemporary life.

The publication of 'St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster', edited by Tim Ayers, J P D Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith and Caroline Shenton, marks the culmination of a major AHRC-funded research project (2013-17), led by scholars in the History and History of Art Departments at the University of York.

Issue 11 covers the theme Dwelling on the everyday: houses, ghosts, ellipses and was co-edited by Open University Professor Alice E Sanger.

The Department of History of Art has placed 8th in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2025 for the subjects of history of art, architecture and design. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

After ten years, Richard McClary’s new monograph has just been published by Edinburgh University Press.

Dr Erhan Tamur's PhD thesis (Columbia University, 2022) won The Donny George Youkhana Dissertation Prize of the The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII).

This podcast examines materials used in art and what they can reveal about history, humanity, and the world at large

We are delighted to announce an MA bursary and internship for 2024/25, generously supported by the Friends of York Art Gallery.

This new article, by Jessica N. Richardson, explores the performativity of images and script in late medieval Florence.

History of Art at York is ranked 6th in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2025).

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Adam Sammut appeared on the Arts & Ideas podcast on Radio 3 last month.

Applications are invited from MA students to engage in one of several possible exciting digital research projects involving the collections and furnishings of three prestigious historic British houses: Castle Howard, Raby Castle and Holkham Hall.

We are pleased to announce that Monuments in Conversation: Westminster Abbey in the Eighteenth Century will be the first event held in the newly renovated conference facilities at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 

We are delighted to share that Prof Kate Giles has been awarded a Historians of British Art Book Prize!