2024 news

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!