This series currently comprises family newspapers only.
Sans titreVolumes 92.1, 92.2, 92.4, 92.5 and 92.6 are indexed. Volume 92.3 is not.
Volumes 89.1, 89.4, and 89.5 are indexed, volumes 89.2 and 89.3 are not.
Both volumes are indexed.
Minute books of the Rugby Club and its Social Club.
Please note that the minute books only cover 1887-1981. There is a handwritten note on the club's history dated c. 2003 inserted in one of the volumes.
All four volumes are indexed.
1 1962-64
2 1964-74
These volumes contain indexes
1 1952-62
2 1963-74
Also contains loose minutes:
1947-1950
1955-1958
1959-1965
1966-1974
1974-1978
These volumes contain indexes.
1 1940-54
2 1954-62
3 1963-74
These volumes have indexes.
Strays Committee - becomes Parks and Smallholdings Committee in 1913
51.1 1907-21
52.1 1921-28
2 1928-35
3 1935-43
4 1943-49
5 1949-53
6 1953-57
plus draft Parks and Smallholdings Committee minutes
52a 1951-1952
Sans titre8 1961-64
9 1964-72
10 1972-74
These volumes contain indexes.
Known as Commercial Development Committee between 1907-1909
- 1907-1928
- 1929-1944
Two of these volumes contain indexes (excluding 1961-1973)
Tramways Committee minutes
1923-29
Tramways and Motors Committee (from 1925) minutes
1929-60
Transport Committee minutes
1961-73
The volumes contain indexes
1 1888-94
2 1895-1910
3 1910-1914
1 1884-89
2 1889-94
3 1894-1905
4 1905-13
5 1913-23
6 1923-1930
7 1930-40
8 1940-49
9 1949-53
10 1953-57
11 1957-63
12 1963-74
Minute books detailing procedings at various meetings of the York Penitentiary Society. Also includes 2 minute books for Clifton Holme in particular.
Sans titreVisiting Books recording visits to shelters and buidlings associated with the York Penitentiary Society. Includes Case book, Matron's Report book, "Jottings book", Register of Inmates and 'shelter reports'.
Sans titreAnnual reports in their published form (some in volumes, others as loose, singular reports) and records of procedings from annual meetings of the York Penitentiary Society.
Sans titreIncludes indexes.
1 1886-89
2 1889-91
3 1891-94
4 1894-96
5 1896-99
6 1899-1901 (Became Health Committee in 1900)
Includes index.
- 1888-1898
- 1898-1917
- 1917-1948
This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.
Bound committee minutes
Sans titreIncludes newsletters, balance sheets and accounts, surveys conducted (and responses), summaries of matters discussed at meetings, appraisals of buildings in the area, maps and architectural drawings and publicity leaflets.
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Sans titreIncludes copies of the Bishophill and Clementhorpe Local Plan, papers relating to the widening of Skeldergate, planning applications for local improvements and planning briefs for 26-34 Skeldergate and a proposed car park.
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Sans titreVarious notebooks and lists compiled by Eustace Strickland, principally relating to history, statistical and demographic information, literature, and antiquarian matters. Also includes some notes relating to flora and fauna, and the natural world.
Includes tickets, programmes, information sheets, and other associated papers produced for the Yorkshire Musical Festival, held in 1825, 1828, 1833 and 1835. Also includes some papers relating to the Yorkshire Amateur Musical Meeting in 1872.
This volume is part indexed
18 1953-56
These three volumes are indexed
19 1956-59
20 1959-62
21 1962-65
These volumes are indexed.
1 1836-48
2 1849-60
3 1860-72
4 1872-79
5 1879-86
6 1886-92
7 1892-98
8 1898-1904
9 1904-08
10 1908-15
.11 1915-21
12 1921-27
13 1927-32
14 1932-38
15 1938-43
16 1943-48
17 1948-52
These volumes contain indexes.
6.1 1836-38
6.2 1838-64
6.3 1864-71
General committee and committee appointed for the management of the revenues of the corporation
1 1805-1811
E77 1816-1828
E77a 1828-1835
E93: 1718-1755
E94: 1755-1782
E95: 1782-1802
E96: 1802-1815
E97: 1815-1827
E98: 1827-1866
These volumes contain indexes
Emergency Feeding Committee
1941-46
Civic Restaurant Committee
1946-51
Renamed Civil Defence Committee from 1950. These volumes contain indexes.
1 1943-59
2 1960-72
Stores Committee minutes
1 1920-34
2 1935-55
Stores & Purchasing Committee minutes
3 1955-63
4 1963-73
These volumes contain indexes.
1 1961-62
2 1963-74
Smallholdings and Allotments Committee to 1922, Allotments Committee from 1922
1 1908-24
2 1924-49
3 1949-61
Volumes 2, 4-8 contain indexes. For committee name changes see linked authority files,
- 1897
- 1897-1907
- 1907-15
- 1915-21
- 1921-27
- 1927-36
- 1936-46
- 1946-48
These volumes include indexes.
Public Library Committee,
1 1909-26
2 1926-42
3 1942-53
Library and Publicity Committee from 1949
4 1953-62
5 1962-73
These volumes contain indexes
- 1890-1896
- 1896-1909
Volumes listed below
1 Markets Cttee (Cattle Fair Cttee) with accounts 1827-31
2 1836-65
3 1865-85
4 1885-95
5 1895-1907
6 1907-19
7 1919-30
8 1931-46
9 1946-53
10 1953-58
11 1958-1963
12 1963-73
Documents from the York Penitentiary Ladies Committee including meeting minutes, financial documents, reports and correspondence, and legal and operational documents.
Sans titreVarious letters, official and personal documents relating to the Whitehead, or Whytehead, family as well as additional records relating to Thomas Bowman.
Various documents collected by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society comprising civic, royal, and offical documents, including accounts and extracts from the Sherriff rolls of Yorkshire, accounts of the King's deer, certificates of appointment and commission of people in the armed forces, royal warrants and levies, letters patent, and the appointment of an official supplier by the Duchess of Kent.
Includes correspondence, business accounts and sales ledgers, and personal tickets and documents.
Includes a guild copy of one of the York Mystery Plays, ordinances and lists of members for the Company of Girdlers, and account books for the Guild of Curriers.
Includes a certificate relating to an admission into the Guild of Curriers, an apprenticeship indenture, a certificate relating to an admission to the Freedom of the City of York, and a certficiate proving a freedom from tolls to the Dean and Chapeter of York.
Various deeds relating to land across the City of York including Micklegate, the Merchant Taylors Hall and Walmgate Bar without. Many of these deeds include original wax seals.
Also includes some deeds relating to areas surrounding the City of York, including Naburn, Askham Richard, and Rufforth.
Correspondence, with some associated papers, addressed to and received by Andrew Agar of Grimstone, York. Some of the letters are addressed to Andrew Agar, care of his brother, Thomas Agar, Draper, at Pavement York. This Thomas Agar later became Lord Mayor of York.
The majority of the papers concern estate administration, including finances and the payment of rents. Also includes some papers relating the marriage of Agar's sister, and to a law suit in London.
Until 1752, Great Britain used the Julian calendar, with the first day of the new year falling on March 25th. Dates for these letters have been given as written on the letters and have not been converted into new style dates.
Various documents collected and created by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and its members relating to the history of York and Yorkshire, c. 13th-19th centuries. This includes copies of documents, lists and catalogues of documents, historical notes and sketches, and transcripts of talks and lecture notes.
This series was previously arranged as 'Antiquarian records'.
At present this series comprises one copy of 'The Golden Wheel in York', and one copy of 'More about the Golden Wheel in York', both by Cy Read.
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Sans titreIncludes accounts for the charity fund and a minute book and register of covenants.
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Sans titreCommittee minutes for the club. Includes bound volumes of minutes between 1921 and 1973, and typed loose minutes from 1948 to 2010.
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Sans titreIncludes original programme and award certificates, a copy of a presidential election certificate, and a membership badge.
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Photographs of Rotary Club events and activities.
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These minutes are printed off copies electronic records.
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Printed cards, which provide details of food menus and toast lists.
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This series comprises 7 bound volumes, the diaries of Cuthbert Joseph Kleiser (1855-1929). They mainly focus on events in York, particularly associated with the theatre and dramatic arts. They are handwritten.
Complete series of minute books of the corporation, traditionally known as "house books". The first series started in a different format before municipal reform in 1835.
1 (1835-1837)
2 (1838-1842)
3 (1842-1850)
4 (1850-1853)
5 (1854-1855)
6 (1855-1859)
7 (1859-1862)
8 (1862-1864)
9 (1864-1866)
10 (1866-1867)
11 (1868-1869)
12 (1870-1872)
13 (1872-1873)
14 (1873-1874)
15 (1875-1876)
16 (1876-1877)
17 (1877-1879)
18 (1879-1880)
19 (1880-1882)
20 (1882-1883)
21 (1883-1885)
22 (1885-1886)
23 (1886-1887)
24 (1887-1889)
25 (1889-1892)
26 (1892-1895)
27 (1895-1899)
28 (1899-1902)
29 (1802-1904)
30 (1904-1906)
31 (1906-1908)
32 (1908-1909)
33 (1909-1911)
34 (1911-1912)
35 (1912-1914)
36 (1914-1916)
37 (1916-1918)
38 (1918-1920)
39 (1920-1922)
40 (1922-1923)
41 (1923-1925)
42 (1925-1927)
43 (1927-1929)
44 (1929-1931)
45 (1931-1934)
46 (1934-1937)
47 (1937-1944)
48 (1944-1949)
49 (1950-1953)
50 (1953-1957)
51 (1957-1960)
52 (1960-1964)
53 (1964-1966)
54 (1966-1969)
55 (1969-1971)
56 (1971-1973)
57 (1973-1974)
58 (1977-1978)
59 (1978-1979)
60 (1979-1980)
61 (1980-1981)
62 (1981-1982)
63 (1982-1983)
64 (1983-1984)
65 (1984-1985)
66 (1985-1986)
67 (1986-1987)
68 (1987-1988)
69 (1988-1989)
70 (1989-1990)
71 (1990-1991)
72 (1991-1992)
73 (1992-1993)
74 (1993-1994)
75 (1994-1995)
76 (1995-1996)
77 (1996-1997)
78 (1997-1998)
79 (1998-1999)
80 (1999-2000)
81 (2000-2001)
82 (2001-2002)
83 (2002-2003)
84 (2003-2004)
85 (2004-2005)
86 (2005-2006)
87 (2006-2007)
88 (2007-2008)
90 (2009-2010)
91 (2010-2011)
92 (2011-2012)
Plans and maps of various parts of Yorkshire. Retrieved as a binder, not individual items.
- 'An epitomised map of the East Riding of Yorkshire' (1709)
- William Palmer 'A map of the river Ouse' (1725)
- Francis Drake 'Roman roads in the county of York' (1736)
- J Rocque 'The North Riding of Yorkshire' (1746)
- J Rocque ' The West Riding of Yorkshire' (1746)
- W H Toms 'Map of Yorkshire North from London' (1742)
- T Kitchin 'The West Riding of Yorkshire' (1749)
- E Bowen 'An accurate map of the North Riding of Yorkshire' (1750)
- E Bowen 'An accurate map of the West Riding of Yorshire' (1750)
- T Kitchin & T Jefferys 'Map of the West Riding of Yorkshire' (1775)
- R W Seale 'The West Riding of Yorkshire' (1764)
- E Bowen 'An accurate map of the County of York' (1777)
- E Bowen 'An accurate map of the West Riding of Yorkshire' (1777)
- T Conder 'New Map of Yorkshire' (1784)
- Plan of the River Ouse at Selby (1790)
- West Riding of Yorkshire (1794)
Original published lists of felons convicted at the York Assizes and moved to York Castle for their sentences to be carried out. The lists include names, ages, details of their crimes and the sentence passed. All lists are numbered and arranged by date of the offence.
- 1785-99
- 1800-1819
- 1820-1841
- 1842-51
These records are retrived as binders, not individual items.
Includes photographs of the park, ideas for park benches, restoration photographs, birthday party photographs and photos of park activities.
Sans titreIncludes correspondence between City of York Council, the Friends of Rowntree Park and consultants on the formulation of the Bid and progress reports.
Sans titreIncludes minutes of meetings and general correspondence
Sans titreMaterial on the history of Rowntree Park, which includes material from tours and talks about the park, and on the history of the redevelopment of the park.
Sans titreIncludes minutes of all committees connected to the administration and maintenance of the York Union Workhouse (later the City Institution and then The Grange)
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The meeting minutes include minutes for committee meetings; annual general meetings; extraordinary general meetings; and various sub-committee minutes including the music sub-committee and finance sub-committee.
The minutes include additional documents which include meeting agendas, correspondence, and monthly income and expenditure accounts.
Research notes relating to the history of the police in York and North Yorkshire. See file-level descriptions for more detailed information.
Sans titreDetailed index cards compiled by Hugh Murray during the course of his research. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.
Sans titreFiles of press cuttings relating to various aspects of York history, and the history of further afield. See file level descriptions for more detailed information. Also includes additional papers where these were originally stored with the newspaper cuttings files.
Sans titreIncludes maps, a booklet with sketches, correspondence, notes relating to York, Beverley and Scarborough, and drafts of Hugh Murrays book on town plans.
Sans titreIncludes some talks and research notes. Many streets in York are covered, so please see individuals file descriptions for more detailed information. Please note reference number HMU/8/49 was not used in cataloguing.
Sans titreIncludes notes on York goldsmiths and silversmiths, including details of wills, and copies of secondary source material.
Sans titreIncludes papers relating to railways, horse trams, trolleybuses and electrobuses, boats and the Sheppee Steam Company.
Sans titreIncludes pedigrees and handwritten notes for many families in York. See individual file descriptions for which surnames are included in each file. The files have been arranged alphabetically.
Sans titreIncludes papers on the Boer War and First World War memorials in York. Please see file descriptions for more detailed information.
Sans titreFiles of handwritten notes, photocopied documents, newspaper cuttings and typescripts relating to photographs of York, early photographers and their work. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.
Sans titreSeries of talks, and research notes for talks, compiled by Hugh Murray during the course of his work as a local historian. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.
Sans titreCollection of research files compiled by Hugh Murray, where the contents cannot be easily distributed into collated series. Please see individual file level descriptions for details of the contents of this very varied series.
Sans titrePapers relating to York Civic Trust, including meeting minutes, agendas, financial papers and project papers. Also includes papers relating to the Sheldon Memorial Trust Awards and Bishophill Action Plan 1972, which were co-located with the Civic Trust papers.
Sans titreSet of meeting minutes for New Earswick Parish Council. The minutes from 1973 to 1989 have not yet been deposited.
Sans titreThese files are the original transcripts and evidence supplied in the course of investigations by the York coroners office.
Sans titreThese files are the original transcripts and evidence supplied in the course of investigations by the York coroners office.
Sans titreThese files are the original transcripts and evidence supplied in the course of investigations by the York coroners office.
Sans titreProgrammes for performances held at York theatres and venues.
Programmes for performances and other events held at York festivals, civic events, and other celebrations.
Programmes for performances by York based professional and amateur groups.
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Items given to presidents of the York Society of Magicians.
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Trophies and shields awarded to York Society of Magician members.
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Includes programmes and other papers from various performances.