Our facilities

Our Centre's home is Heslington Hall, a spectacular Grade II listed building is at the heart of the University. The building is home to many of our staff offices, and our events and much of our postgraduate teaching take place here too. Our postgraduate researchers have dedicated desk space in a work room they share with the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.

More broadly, Heslington Hall is an interdisciplinary hub for teaching, engagement and research across the arts and humanities. It's an ideal place to meet staff and students from a range of disciplines and build connections with other centres and departments.

Learn more about Heslington Hall

On campus

The JB Morrell and the Raymond Burton libraries house extensive collections of books, journals and e-resources across all disciplines related to medieval studies, and offer a range of flexible working spaces. 

The Borthwick Institute for Archives is a nationally significant international archive collection, offering you the opportunity to view original documents from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Some examples from our collections include:

• York Church Court records, 1300-1858
• Northern Province original wills 1389-1858
• Registers of the Archbishops of York, 1225 onwards
• Records of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York, 1175-onwards

In the city

There's a public library in the city, and the York Minster Archives and Library holds a vast collection of books, manuscripts, and artifacts spanning almost 2,000 years of history. York is near the Boston Spa Reading Room, giving you access to millions of British Library items.

• The Wormald Collection
• Stained Glass Collections

Explore our collections

The Centre is home to the Boydell and Brewer imprint, York Medieval Press.

York Medieval Press promotes innovative scholarship and publishes monographs, editions and collections of essays in all fields relating to the study of the Middle Ages.

Discover York Medieval Press