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THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK
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THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK
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Tel: (01904) 433963
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433907 (Jane Grenville)
Fax: (01904) 433902
Website: www.york.ac.uk
The University is one of the founding sponsors of the Consortium, and continues to play a direct role in supporting its activities in the field of conservation and craftsmanship. Across the spectrum of the University there are a number of centres and departments, which have direct or complementary interest in the study, conservation, interpretation, contemporary understanding, and use of heritage in its many forms.The Department of Archaeology, located in the Kings Manor in central York, is home to postgraduate courses in the Archaeology of Buildings, Conservation Studies and Heritage Management as well as graduate and postgraduate courses in all aspects of archaeology. The department has an active research programme and is in partnership with a number of other institutions with a shared interest in heritage subjects. These include the York Art-Workers Association, Yorkshire Country Houses (with which there is a special liaison group), the Yorkshire Gardens Trust, Ryedale Folk Museum, Temple Newsam House Museum, Leeds, York Minster, the York Glazier's Trust and others.
In addition, based at the main campus of the University, The Borthwick Institute for Archives is one of the country's leading archive repositories, caring for archives from the twelfth to twenty-first centuries. With substantial help from the Heritage Lottery Fund it has just moved into a new, state of the art, archive building, with environmental conditions specifically designed to preserve the archives. The Borthwick has a large conservation laboratory, which deals with all aspects of archives conservation: works on rag and wood-pulp paper and parchment, maps of all sizes, backed with linen or other materials, wax seals, rebinding of volumes and more. The Borthwick is happy to give advice about remedial conservation and undertake conservation commissions; will give advice on the optimum conditions for keeping and using archives; and will accept gifts and deposits of archives in order to preserve them for the future and make them accessible for research.