Records Management & Information Governance
Finding aids
Researchers and University depositors can use these pages to browse listings of those archives generated by the University of York or accumulated by its departments. The University Archive is in the process of being arranged and catalogued and finding aids will be added as work progresses and material comes in.
You can search across the Univerisity of York Archive and Borthwick's collections using the search box below.
Access
The University Archive is located in the Borthwick Institute. Its records are generally open subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws. Access to modern committee papers, personal papers and subject files may be restricted, owing to the recent nature of the material and prevalence of third party personal and confidential information. Researchers wishing to consult restricted material in the archives should contact the University Archivist in the first instance.
Related resources
You can search on the Library's holdings (including York theses, rare books and the IAAS collection) through the library catalogue.
The York Digital Library holds collections of digitised images from the
- University Photographer,
- University Art Collection,
- IAAS and
- other research collections.
The Archives Hub and Archives Portal Europe are aggregators whose search engines allow you to search across the Borthwick's collections and those of many other universities and archives within the UK and across Europe.
The catalogue for The National Archives covers government records held by TNA (such as the University Grants Committee) and also hosts descriptions from other UK archives.