York Minster has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer- Jen Thewsey, who starts on Monday. Jen joins from York Archaeology where she worked for over 5 years, first as a management accountant before ...

And 821,000 people visited our libraries – that’s more footfall than the Railway Museum or York Minster! • We supported 75 reading groups, providing book sets and space to connect.

Let’s hope so. York Minster. Picture by James Hardisty. All the loveliness that is in the North of the county – Grassington, Northallerton, Skipton and everywhere in between. My husband ...

AS 2024 draws to a close, we’re celebrating a decade of Explore Libraries, Archives, and Reading Cafés – ten years of transforming York’s public spaces into vibrant hubs of creativity, community ...

As previously reported by The Press, farmers planned a protest in York today, which led them through the city's inner ring road. At the Minster, protestors spoke to The Press about why they ...

A model of York Minster made out of 80,000 matchsticks has been sold to a toy shop, with the money donated to charity. Clive Holmes, 87, from Durham, spent two years fashioning his 6ft (1.8m ...

Researchers have claimed that Christ disciple Mary Magdalene may have been hiding in plain sight in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece for nearly 500 years. The sneaky figure’s identity ...

Though famous for its well-preserved medieval wall, its finest architectural treasure is York Minster, not only England’s largest medieval Gothic church, but a cathedral regarded as among the ...

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In something resembling Where’s Waldo for a Renaissance masterpiece, an Italian researcher is confident she has located a depiction of Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.

The chapel was left intact when the hospital was demolished in 1924 and rebuilt, after it was declared structurally unsafe. In 1928, the Duke of York – later King George VI, grandfather to the ...