Archive service of the University of York, England
The Borthwick Institute for Archives is the specialist archive service of the University of York, York, England. It is one of the biggest archive repositories outside London.[1] The Borthwick was founded in 1953 as The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.[2] It was originally based at St Anthony's Hall, a fifteenth-century guild hall on Peasholme Green, in central York. Since 2005 it has been based in a purpose-built building, situated adjacent to the JB Morrell Library on the University of York's Heslington West campus. This new building was made possible due to a grant of £4.4 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund[1][3] and designed by Leach Rhodes Walker and Buro Happold.[4]
Archivists and directors
Five archivists have headed the Borthwick Institute, all serving under their predecessors.[5][6] The title was changed from "Director" to "Keeper of Archives" in 2005 and was further expanded to "Keeper of Archives & Special Collections" in 2019.[5]
Business records, including the archives of the Rowntree and Terry's confectionery companies, Vickers scientific instrument makers, and Sessions of York publishers.
Environmental records, including the archives of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the York and District Field Naturalists' Society
Records of prominent Yorkshire families, including York Quaker families such as Rowntree and Tuke, and local gentry and aristocratic families such as the Earls of Halifax, the Yarburgh family of Heslington Hall, and the Milnes Coates family of Helperby Hall.
Records relating to Southern Africa, based on the collections of the university's former Centre for Southern African Studies (including the paper of Michael Young).
The Cause Papers – a searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the Diocese of York.
