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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.