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Dear all Just something that may be of some interest to you - we launched today a new, free resource, p roviding free access to over 20,000 high-quality images of Registers produced by Archbishops of York from 1225-1650 . Our new resource also features a growing searchable index of names, subjects, places and organisations. The York Registers, handwritten on over 10,000 individual parchment folios, are one of the earliest,largest and longest locally-produced series of archives from the medieval and early modern periods. Starting fifty years before corresponding examples for the Archbishops of Canterbury, they are unparalleled in Europe. Recording activity across the whole of the North of England, the Registers provide unique insights into ecclesiastical, political and cultural history over a period that witnessed the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation and the English Civil War. Funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, the digitisation project took 15 months, with specialist conservation and imaging work undertaken here at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, T echnical development work - including the creation of a specialist metadata/indexing tool - was carried out by the University of York Digital Library. The Registers can be found at http://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk. You can find more information about the project via http://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/projects/archbishops-registers Gary Brannan Access Archivist Borthwick Institute for Archives Information Services University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: +44(0)1904 321162 Borthwick Institute website: http://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ Twitter: @gbrannanarchive Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra