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27 June 2025

Guidelines for expressions of interest to the department of History

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17 June 2025

Do you have a ghost story to tell? Come and be part of a University research project capturing local stories passed down through generations

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11 June 2025

York is ranked 8th in the UK for history in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2026).

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10 April 2025

This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century.

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14 March 2025

History at York placed =12th in the UK and in the top 100 in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2025).

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11 February 2025

A new book shows that 19th century Colombians were far from a downtrodden group reliant on Europe to send them its cast-offs, and were in fact a dynamic, and demanding, consumers of global goods.

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24 January 2025

We have been ranked 54th in the world and 11th in the UK for the study of Arts and Humanities in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

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14 November 2024

Applications from current postgraduate students are now invited for the James Jarvis Memorial Bursary.

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