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 for Historical Research. It was originally based at St Anthony's Hall, a fifteenth century guild hall on Peaseholme Green, in central York. It is now based in a new, purpose-built building, situated adjacent to the J.B. Morrell Library on the University of York's Heslington campus. This new building was made possible due to a grant of £4.4 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund[1][2] and designed by Leach Rhodes Walker and Buro Happold.[3]
Special collections[edit]
The special collections held by the University of York Library are viewed in the Borthwick Searchrooms.
- Holdings
- Records of the Diocese of York
- Probate Records for the Diocese of York
- Parish Records for the Archdeaconry of York
- Records of the York Health Trust
- Records of local families, e.g. Yarburgh and the Hickleton Wood Family, Earls of Halifax including Edward Wood
- The University of York Archive
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