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Centre for Digital Heritage

Bringing the past to life with the latest digital technologies.

The Centre for Digital Heritage (CDH) was established in 2012 to provide a focus for researchers from across the University of York with an interest in all fields of digital heritage, including data management, analysis and visualisation. 

It brings together staff from the Departments of Archaeology, Computer Science, Electronics, History, Music, Sociology and Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media, as well as the Humanities Research Centre and the Borthwick Institute for Archives.

We encourage a creative and playful yet rigorous approach to the use of digital technologies to study and present the past. Our local and global collaborations and interdisciplinary structure allow us to be responsive and make strategic, innovative interventions with high levels of social and economic impact.

Colleen Morgan, Director of the Centre for Digital Heritage

We created 'Internet Archaeology' the world's first interactive peer-reviewed e-journal
Many of our projects have won awards including the Heritage in Motion Award
We bring together six leading universities in the fields of digital heritage and humanities

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Services and facilities

Drawing on our cross-disciplinary expertise, we offer a range of consultancy and training services to support your digital needs.

We also provide access to state-of-the-art multimedia technologies and space to experiment with a variety of new technologies and techniques.

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The Centre for Digital Heritage is uniquely positioned to support Masters programmes in the field of digital heritage at the University of York. The following programmes are currently available: 

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