Explore York Archives
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- York Explore Library Learning Centre, Library Square, York, YO1 7DS, England, United Kingdom
- Opening Hours
- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: 09.30-17.00 Saturday: 09.30-16.00
- Access Information
- You can make an appointment to view our archives by emailing us or telephoning Archives and Local History on 01904 552800. If you know what you would like to see please let us know and we can make sure it is available for you when you arrive. If you want to look at other archives during your visit you can do so – we make hourly trips to the archives strongroom from 10.00 until 16.00 on weekdays, and from 10.00 until 3.00 on Saturdays.
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List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Elizabeth Fry Memorial Trust
- The Judges Lodging, York
- The Ramblers (York Group)
- The Samaritans: York Branch
- The Sayer Orchestra
- The Scout Association, York
- The Scout Association, York
- The Yorkshire Regiment
- Account books of the Morrell family
- Acomb and District Herald community magazine
- Alan Malden Owen and Mary Owen
- Alison Sinclair papers
- Allen Family Papers
- Allied Air Forces Memorial and Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington
- Ambler family of York
- Anne and Paul Bayliss
- Armstrong Patents
- Army Branch Libraries: Northern Command Library
- Arnett's Butchers, Acomb
- Art Scene
- Audin family papers
- Autobiography and papers of Millicent Price
- Autograph collection of Reginald Hunt
- Bank's Music
- Barron and Barron, York accountants
- BBC Radio York
- Bedern Hall Company
- Bellerby's Painters and Decorators
- Ben Johnson's, printers
- Bishophill Action Group
- Bleasdale's Chemist
- Bootham Bowling Club
- Brian Hartley Papers
- Brian Wragg papers
- British Legion: York Branch papers
- Brunswick / Peasholme Hostel
- Burnholme Social Club, Heworth
- Camidge family papers
- Canon J S Purvis papers
- Castle Area Campaign Group
- Catherine Cappe Memorial Trust
- Catholic Marriage Advisory Council (York)
- Cattle-Cattell-Cattall Family
- Cattley Ernest & Co, wood merchants
- Charles Anderson papers
- Charles Cartwright papers
- Charles Letts papers
- Chicken family records
- Churches Together, Huntington and New Earswick
- Citizens' Advice Bureau, York branch
- City of York and District Family History Society
- Clements Hall Local History Group
- Clifford J Grant papers
- Clifton Cycling Club
- Clifton Township Book and Peter Hill's Charity
- Clifton Without Parish Council
- Cocoa Works Choral Society
- Collected items of John Barefoot
- Communications Workers Union, York and District Combined branch
- Community Health Council for the York District
- Company of Butchers of the City of York
- Company of Cordwainers, York
- Council for British Archaeology Group 4
- Cundall Family Papers and Photographs
- Deltic Preservation Society
- Diary of Christopher Ware
- Documents belonging to Mr. R. Wilibur
- Dringhouses Parish Council
- Dunnington Needlework Group
- Dustin Gee (Gerald Harrison) papers
- East Riding Dialect Society
- Eastern Rail News
- Ebor Cycling Club
- Eboracum Lodge
- Edna Crichton, Lord Mayor of York
- Enclosure awards
- Ephemeral material donated to York Reference Library
- Financial papers of Leonard Birch
- Foss Area Christian Aid Society
- Frank N Geary & Co, ironmongers
- Fred and John Hawksby papers
- Frederick Bell, architects
- Friends of Clifton Green
- Friends of Heworth Holme
- Friends of Rowntree Park
- Friends of West Bank Park
- Friends of York Art Gallery
- Friends of York City Archives
- Gansolite, York
- George Dickenson Dalby, Plumber
- George Fettes, Pawnbroker of Lady Peckett's Yard
- George Leeman's Deeds and Papers
- George Richard Simpson papers
- Gild of Freemen of the City of York
- Grand Opera House, York
- Gray Family Papers
- Hardings drapers, High Ousegate, York
- Harold Edgar Bloor papers
- Harriet Beadnell papers
- Harry and Esther Chapman papers
- Haxby Community Centre
- Haxby Town Council papers
- Haxby, Wigginton and Strensall Herald
- Henry Tennant papers
- Hepper and Watson, Estate Agents
- Heslington Parish Council
- Hey family letters
- Home-Start York
- Hornby family
- Hugh Murray archive
- Hull, Selby and York Shipping Company, Poads Yard
- Huntington Good Neighbours Association
- Huntington Local History Group
- Ideal Laundry, St. Martin's Lane
- Inland Waterways Association Ltd.
- Invalid Children's Aid Association
- J.H Walker & Co, Coal Merchants
- James Backhouse & Son, nurserymen, York
- Joe Murphy archive
- John Bowes Morrell
- John Hodgson's Charitable Trust
- John Walker memorabilia
- Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust
- Juniper Communities Ltd
- Kingsway Area Residents Association
- Lamb Family papers
- Legion of Frontiersmen, York
- Leng family papers
- Leonard Cheshire Foundation (York Committee)
- Letters addressed to York People
- Letters of Lillie Dyson of Monkgate, York
- Letters of William Etty
- Letters received by Reverend J Fowler
- Letters to Mr John Cooper, Attercliffe
- London and North Eastern Railway York Employees Amateur Swimming Club
- Manuscripts collection
- Manuscripts of 'Hudson', local historian
- Manuscripts of Francis Drake, York local historian
- Manuscripts of William Hargrove, York local historian
- Manuscripts of William Peckitt, York glass painter
- Mennell Sawmill
- Meteorological Records of Charles Piazzi Smyth
- Multiple Sclerosis Society, York Group
- My Future York project
- National Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
- National Register of Archives, West Riding of Yorkshire, Northern Region
- National Union of Journalists: York County & Press
- Nellie Battrick papers
- Nestle plc
- Nether Poppleton Parish Council
- New Earswick Bulletin
- North Eastern Railway Association
- North Riding of Yorkshire Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society
- North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- North Yorkshire Health Authority
- Northern Directory of Writers
- Northern Horticultural Society
- Notebook of John Cossins, map maker
- Oldfield Wine Merchants records
- One and Other Creative
- Orphaned photograph and image collection
- Osbaldwick Parish Council
- Ouse and York River Authority
- Papers collected Frederick George Tansley
- Papers compiled by Anne Gordon, archives volunteer
- Papers of Captain Johnson, Yorkshire Hussar Yeomanry
- Papers of Charlotte Eyre
- Papers of Cyril Deighton
- Papers of David Clarke
- Papers of Doris Gardham
- Papers of G Hemingway
- Papers of Geoffrey Handley-Taylor
- Papers of George Walker Milburn, Sculptor
- Papers of Hugh Bayley, Member of Parliament for York
- Papers of Iris Lemare, conductor
- Papers of John Goodricke and Nathaniel and Edward Pigott
- Papers of Leslie Barton
- Papers of Leslie Burgess, playwright
- Papers of Maurice Kirk
- Papers of Munby and Scott, York solicitors
- Papers of Oswald Allen
- Papers of Philip Leeman
- Papers of Poppleton Men's Society
- Papers of Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott, M.P.
- Papers of the Knowles family, including J W Knowles & Sons, stained glass painters
- Papers of the National Association of Local Government Organisations (NALGO)
- Papers relating to William Dove & Co, ironmongers
- Persimmon plc
- Personal Papers of Sydney H Smith
- Peter Hawley papers
- Poppleton History Society papers
- Poppleton Parish News: All Saints & St Everilda's
- Poppleton Road Memorial Hall
- Press cuttings
- Pulleyn Family
- R W Anderson and Sons Ltd, Tailors
- Railways Athletics Association
- Raime's Chemist, York
- Raine Family Papers
- Rawcliffe Tennis Club
- Records of Acomb Local History Group
- Records of Acomb Windmill
- Records of Augustus Mahalski, Photographer
- Records of Bar Convent School, York
- Records of Bootham School, York
- Records of Dunnington Parish Council
- Records of Electric Theatres Ltd, Fossgate
- Records of F. Burgins, Chemist
- Records of Fulford (Water) Parish Council
- Records of Gillyatt Sumner
- Records of Gray, Dodsworth & Cobb, Solicitors
- Records of Hungate Mission School, St Saviourgate, York
- Records of Huntington Parish Council
- Records of J W Ruddock and Sons, Tailors
- Records of Kexby Parish Council
- Records of the Aitken Family
- Records of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) York Branch
- Records of the Church of England York Incorporated Sunday School Committee
- Records of the Clifford Street Voluntary Detachment Hospital
- Records of the Clutton and Dalla Husband families
- Records of the Delittle Wood Letter Manufacturers
- Records of the Derwent Valley Light Railway
- Records of the Dodsworth Family
- Records of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Records of the Empire Theatre, York
- Records of the English Move On 3D Printing Project
- Records of the Fairbank Family, Surveyors and Engineers
- Records of the Fairfax Society
- Records of the Manor of Dringhouses
- Records of The Mount School, York
- Records of the Munby Family
- Records of the Place and Mason Families of Skelton
- Records of the York & District Adult Schools and Social Clubs Limited
- Records of the York and District Licensed Victuallers Association
- Records of the York Association for the Care of Young Girls and York Training Home
- Records of the York Cemetery Company
- Records of the York Conservative Association
- Records of the York Mechanics' Friendly Society
- Records of the York Motor Yacht Club
- Records of William Varley
- Records of York City Rowing Club
- Records of Yorkshire Insurance Company
- Records relating to Earswick Parish Council
- Records relating to Henry Steward, Lord Mayor & Chairman of the Grand Yorkshire Gala
- Records relating to New Earswick Parish and Village Councils
- Research notes of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHMS)
- Research notes on Lawrence Leadley
- Research papers of Charles Knight, local historian
- River Foss Society
- Robert Benton papers
- Robert Dent & Son Ltd, Builders and Joiners
- Robert H Scaife papers
- Robert Kite & Co, London
- Robinson Family: deeds and papers of former estates at Clifton, Rawcliffe, Newby, Rainton and York
- Ronald Kitchen photographs and memorabilia
- Room and Sherwood families
- Rotary Club of York
- Rowntree Mackintosh plc
- Rowntree Players Dramatic Society
- RSPB York Branch
- RSPCA, York and District Branch
- Rural Action Yorkshire
- Samuel Holberry papers
- Selby Magistrates Court records
- Sheldon Memorial Trust
- Simpson & Son Clothiers and Tailors
- Skelton Village Archive
- Slides created by Stuart Lack
- Smith family papers
- Soldiers Institute, Strensall
- Soroptimist International of York
- St Andrew Society of York
- St George's Cinema, York
- St Leonard's office works Slow Walks Club
- St Oswald's Church, Fulford
- St Paul's Square Association
- St Peter's School, York
- St Sampson's Old People's Centre
- St Stephen's Orphanage
- Streetwise Publications
- Strensall Local History Group
- Strickland Papers
- Sumpner family papers
- Swales Family papers
- Swann Family Papers
- Swifts Plumbers, Selby
- Sydney John Holmes papers
- T C Benfield papers
- T P Cooper, York Historian
- Tate Wilkinson Theatres
- Telford and Whitaker papers
- Thomas Allis papers
- Thomas Bowman Whytehead, York antiquarian
- Thomas Surbey papers
- Thomas Widdrington, Recorder of York
- Transport Users Consultative Council
- Treasurer's House, York deeds
- United Railways Religious Association, York branch
- University of York
- Unwin and Barker
- Vale of York Small Business Association
- Vessey family papers
- Victorian Photograph Album
- Violent K C Meysey-Thompson papers
- Vivian Stuart papers
- Walter Harbottle, undertaker, joiner and wheelwright
- Wares Solicitors collection
- Water Fulford Hall
- Waterton family papers
- Weatherill family
- Wheldon & Jones, Chartered Surveyors
- Wigginton Parish Council
- William Arthur Jagger accounts
- William Baynes, meteorologist
- William Dewhurst, Pharmacist
- William Leak, Draper
- William Patefield, draper and haberdasher
- William White collection
- (William) Patrick Hall papers
- Women's Royal Voluntary Service, York District
- Woodthorpe Residents' Association
- Workers' Educational Association (WEA): York Branch
- World War Two collection
- York 2000
- York 41 Club
- York Academy of Speech and Dramatic Art
- York Adoption Society
- York Against the Iraq War
- York Amateur Bowling Association
- York Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society
- York and District Amalgamation of Anglers
- York and District Animals' Hospital
- York and District Autistic Society
- York and District Band of Hope Union
- York and District Church Missionary Society
- York and District Lambretta Club
- York and District Sunday School Union
- York and District Trades Union Council
- York Angling Association
- York Archaeological Trust
- York Architectural workshop
- York Art Society
- York Arts Centre
- York Assembly Rooms Records
- York Association for the Prosecuting Felons, Cheats etc
- York Association of the National Trust
- York Association of Voluntary Guides
- York Association of Women Graduates
- York Bibliographical Society
- York Blind and Partially Sighted Society
- York branch of the National Commercial Temperance League
- York Business Paper Bags
- York Celebrations Choir
- York Centre for Voluntary Service
- York Chamber of Trade
- York Chapbooks
- York Charity Cricket Cups
- York Choral Competitions
- York Choral Society papers
- York Citizens' Committee Records
- York City (Improvement) Commissioners
- York City Football Club
- York City Mission records
- York Civic Trust
- York Collegiate School
- York Community Council Ltd
- York Conservation Area Advisory Panel
- York Consumer Group
- York County Savings Bank
- York District Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
- York Educational Settlement
- York Family Service Unit
- York Fanteakwa Community Link Group (YFCL)
- York Female Friendly Society papers
- York Georgian Society
- York Gilbert and Sullivan Singers
- York Guild of Building
- York Health and Housing Reform Association
- York Health Food Store
- York Historic Pageant
- York Hoboes Rambling Club
- York Hospital Radio
- York Inset Scooter Club
- York Insurance Committee
- York Junior Chamber of Commerce
- York Liberal Democrats
- York Light Opera Society
- York Magistrates Court records
- York Marriage Guidance Council
- York Model School Old Boys' Association
- York Musical Society
- York Musical Theatre Company Records
- York Mystery Plays
- York National Childbirth Trust
- York Normandy Veterans Association
- York North Eastern Railway Rifle Club
- York Old Priory Choir
- York Open Planning Forum
- York Ornithological Club
- York Penitentiary Society
- York Penny Bank
- York Philatelic Association
- York Photographic Society
- York Pig Club
- York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)
- York Pre-school Association
- York Railway Institute
- York Railway Lecture and Debating Society
- York Red Cross and St. John Penny-A-Week Fund
- York Refugee Committee
- York Round about Group
- York Rugby League Club
- York Self-Help Building Group
- York Settlement Community Players
- York Settlement Literary Club
- York Settlement Trust
- York Society of Engineers
- York St John's College
- York Standing Conference of Women's Organisations
- York Tradesmen's Cricket Club
- York Tuberculosis Crusade
- York Twins Club
- York Wireless Relay Services
- York Work-People's Hospital Fund
- York Zeppelin Raid Records
- York...What's On
- Yorkshire Advertiser
- Yorkshire and Humberside Museums Council
- Yorkshire and Humberside Sports Council
- Yorkshire Archaeological Society
- Yorkshire Association
- Yorkshire Association for the Disabled
- Yorkshire Association of Change Ringers
- Yorkshire County Committee of the National Union of Agricultural Workers
- Yorkshire Dialect Society
- Yorkshire Fat Stock Society papers
- Yorkshire Geological Society
- Yorkshire Mountaineering Club
- Yorkshire Music Festival papers
- Yorkshire Naturalists' Trust
- Yorkshire Ouse Sailing Club
- Yorkshire Philosophical Society Collections
- Yorkshire School for the Blind
- Yorkshire Television Ltd
- Yorkshire Water
- Young Men's Christian Association, York
- Young Women's Christian Association, York
- Your Local Link
- YourK Music