Information about us

Our projects and funders

This database is the product of a number of different digitisation and cataloguing projects, and we are hugely grateful to all our funders for their ongoing support of our work.

Pilot imaging and development, as well as the indexing of the register of Archbishop Neville (1374-1388) was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The conservation, imaging and technical development phases of the wider York project were also generously funded in 2014 and 2015 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the York’s Archbishops’ Registers Revealed project, along with the indexing of the Sede Vacante register, 1304-1306.

Indexing of the registers 1570-1650 was generously funded by the Marc Fitch Fund between 2015 and 2016.

The indexing of the registers 1304 to 1405, and the indexing of the material from The National Archives (UK), was generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of The Northern Way project between 2019 and 2022. This funding, totalling almost £1 million, has allowed us to build on our earlier project work and undertake our most in-depth study of the registers to date. The work was carried out with the support of the Dean and Chapter of York Minster, and we are immensely grateful to both them and The National Archives (UK) for their involvement in the project.

Our supporters

So many people have helped us with the creation and development of this database. We are hugely indebted to the late Emeritus Professor Mark Ormrod, without whose vision this site would never have existed. We also have to thank all the team members who have worked so hard on the project management, indexing and development work to bring these registers to life:

There are also numerous individuals who have generously donated their time and resources to support us in our work. We are very grateful to Dr David Robinson for sharing his provisional edition of sections of Archbishop Melton's register in advance of their publication, and for permitting their use in indexing work. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to Professor David Smith for his generous donation of ordination lists and other material for the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century archbishops of York, and to Dr Rosemary C. E. Hayes for all her help on The Northern Way project, especially with entries relating to taxation.

About the site

You can find out more here about the technical details of this website and the projects.

There is still a lot more work we need to do to complete the indexing work on the registers, so please check back at regular intervals to find out what we will be doing next.

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