York: Art, Architecture and Archaeology

York explores the archaeology, art, architecture and cultural heritage of the city in the late Middle Ages.

In the years since the resurrection of the British Archaeological Association conference in 1976, the association has met in the city only once (in 1988), for a conference that celebrated Yorkshire Monasticism. As a consequence, the secular and vernacular architecture as well as the architecture, art and imagery of York Minster were excluded from its scope, something redressed in the m...