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The Borthwick Institute for Archives is the specialist archive service of the University of York, York, England. It is one of the biggest archive repositories outside London . [ 1 ] The Borthwick was founded in 1953 as The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research . [ 2 ]
She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [5] She was the principal investigator on the team that discovered the story of Joan of Leeds; a 14th-century nun who faked her own death to leave St. Clement's Nunnery in York to live with a man in Beverley. [6] Rees Jones appeared on an episode of Time Team in 2005. [7]
In 1946, after the end of her marriage, she joined Sheffield County Library and worked in the local history and archives department. In 1956 she became assistant archivist to Canon J. S. Purvis as at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, eventually succeeding him as Archivist-in-Charge from 1963. She was subsequently appointed ...
The story of Joan of Leeds came to light in 2019 when a research project at the University of York 's Borthwick Institute for Archives—headed by Professor Sarah Rees Jones—examining the "Registra" of the Archbishops of York for 1305–1405 uncovered the scribe's notes [6] on the Archbishop's monition.
The centre works closely with the Borthwick Institute for Archives and the university's new departments and institutes in the Humanities (particularly the Department of Film, Theatre and Television and the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past), as well as with the York Minster Library, the Yorkshire Country House Project and the ...
Small signs of progress have been shown by England this November but Borthwick is under pressure after five consecutive defeats
Purvis was the first director of the Borthwick Institute for Archives in York, appointed to the role in 1953 and serving until his death in 1963. [8] Before this (in 1939), he was an archivist for the Diocese of York and had also, in 1949, worked on plans to rehouse the diocesan archive in a new library.
Between 1995 and 2010 she worked at the Borthwick Institute for Historical Research, University of York (later, Borthwick Institute for Archives), taking a professional qualification in Archive Administration while there.