Upcoming courses and events

Poets on Form: Exploring the Writing of Poetry Using Form

An online 11 week accredited creative writing module

Possibility, Impossibility and Existence

A 4 week online philosophy course

Homo Sapiens: A Journey Through the Ice Age

An 8 week online history and heritage course

The Consequences of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland

An 8 week online history and heritage course

The Literary Landscapes of Sir Walter Scott

An 8 week online literature course

Introduction to Metaphysics

An 8 week online philosophy course

The Golden Age of the String Quartet (1770-1830)

An 8 week music, stage and screen course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Creative Writing Kick Start

An 8 week online creative writing course

Travelling in the Middle Ages

An 8 week online history and heritage course

Women Artists through the Ages

An 8 week online history of art course

Health and Healthcare in England (1600-1800)

An 8 week online history and heritage course

Natural Wonders: Discovering Nature Writing

An 8 week online literature course

‘I must not saw off the branch on which I am sitting’: Wittgenstein’s Evolution

A 4 week online philosophy course

Hong Kong Under British Colonial Rule

An 8 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Middle Ages on the Silver Screen

An 8 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Writing the City: Place Writing in York

An 8 week online creative writing course

Printmaking in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

An 8 week online history of art course

Medieval Monumental Churches of Northern England

An 8 week online history and heritage course

Philosophy of Religion

An 8 week online philosophy course

Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean

An 8 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Who were the Cathars? Life, Beliefs, and Destruction of the Languedoc Heretics

An 8 week online history and heritage course

What was Ancient Greek Art?

An 8 week online history of art course

The Maritime Republics: Venice, Genoa, Pisa, and Amalfi

An 8 week online history and heritage course

The Road to Canterbury: Travelling with Chaucer’s Pilgrims

An 8 week online literature course

Nietzsche

An 8 week online philosophy course

History of the King's Manor

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Medieval Markets and Fairs

A 2 week online history and heritage course

Beyond God: New Approaches in Philosophy and Theology

A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Fossils: An Introduction

A half-day science and earth science course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

A Workout for 'Would-Be' Writers

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Islamic Art and Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent

A 2 week online history of art course

The Percy Family in the Middle Ages

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Exploring the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The History of the Bible: Text, Transmission, and Translation

A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Isabella of France: The She Wolf?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

August 1920: The Battle of Warsaw and the Salvation of Europe

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Is Everything Conscious?

A half-day online philosophy/religion course

Madness and Murder

A half-day social sciences course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Between the Lines: Poetry and Not Saying Things

A half-day online creative writing course

Introduction to Local History

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Bede the Scientist

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Palaeoenvironments: An Introduction

A half-day science and earth science course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

A half-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Bodies, Busks and Baleen: An Exploration of Corsetry from the Early Modern Period to the Early Twentieth Century

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

A Day with William Wordsworth

A 2 week online literature course

Coins in Roman Britain

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Society in Early Modern England

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Medieval Religious Architecture from Byzantine to Gothic

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

A Day with Shakespeare’s Sonnets

A full-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Gender Puzzles

A half-day online philosophy course

Were Tudor People like Us? Some Thoughts on English Society (1485-1603)

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Legend of St Helena

A half-day online history and heritage course

Philosophy of AI

A 2 week online philosophy course

Mental Health, Mental Ill-Health and Mental-Healthism

A half-day social sciences course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sandro Botticelli

A half-day history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Lavish Life of the Sultans and Their Entourage at the Ottoman Court

A 2 week online history of art course

The clue is (not always) in the name: a tour of nearly-vanished York

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The House of Wessex: From Legendary Cerdic to Æthelred the Unready

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Philosophy of Fiction

A half-day philosophy course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

An Introduction to Visual Poetry II: Water Poems

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, Princess of Wales

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Historic Pubs of York

A half-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Medieval Alliterative Poetry: The Death of Arthur

A half-day online literature course

Art for Art’s Sake: The Rise of Impressionism in France (c.1850-1880)

A 10 week online history of art course

A History of Christianity: From the Apostolic Era to the Reformation

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Painting Nature, Light and Colour: Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionists and more

A 10 week online history of art course

The Writer's Toolkit: Creative Writing Practice and Techniques

An online 11 week accredited creative writing module

The Medieval English House: Hearth and Home (c.1150-c.1500)

An online 11 week accredited history and heritage module

Introduction to Personality Psychology

An 11 week accredited social sciences module (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Manuscript Illumination in the Middle Ages: Concealing and Revealing

A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Lost Country Houses of the East Riding

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Travelling Light: Writers on Place, Travel, and Belonging

A 10 week online literature course

Existentialism

An 8 week online philosophy course

China and Western Imperialism to 1949

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Brocades and Cloths of Gold: Medieval Textiles and Fashion

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Science at the Edge of Reality

A 5 week online philosophy course

The Hanoverians (1714-1837)

An online 11 week accredited history and heritage module

An Introduction to Criminology

An online 11 week accredited social sciences module

Writing Ecopoetry

A 10 week online creative writing course

Women Artists in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Italian Renaissance

A 10 week online history and heritage course

On the Detective Trail in Ancient Rome

A 10 week online literature course

Philosophy of Art

An 8 week online philosophy course

An Introduction to Modern Physics

A 10 week science and earth science course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Early Netherlandish Painting: Campin, Eyck and van der Weyden

A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Age of the Normans

A 10 week online history and heritage course

The Gothic Cathedral

An online 11 week accredited history of art module

The Copy

A 10 week online history of art course

The Welsh Wars of Independence

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Slow Fashion: Histories of Clothing in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Could the Holocaust have been prevented?

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Suleiman, the Magnificent: The Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: From Augustine to Aquinas

An 8 week philosophy course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

What is Knowledge?

A 4 week online philosophy course

Writing Short Stories

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Oliver Cromwell: God’s Englishman and ‘Chief of Men’ or a Tyrant and ‘a Brave Bad Man’?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

A Day at Briggflatts

A full-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

At the Source of the Image: Prehistoric Art in Europe

An 8 week online history and heritage course

The Life and Works of Tennyson

An 8 week online literature course

Abelard and Heloise: Vessels of Misery, Vessels of Glory

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

English Civil Wars and Revolution

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

The Lady Vanishes: Rediscovering Gladys Mitchell’s Early Detective Fiction

A 2 week online literature course

Nikolai Astrup: from Norway with Love

A half-day history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Printing Revolution

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

A History of Animals in York

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Who Was Lady Godiva?

A half-day online history and heritage course

The Art of the Book in the Islamic World

A 2 week online history of art course

The History of Barley Hall, York

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Introduction to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

A half-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Katherine Howard: 'Juvenile Delinquent' or Victim?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

'Murder by the Throat': The Black and Tans and the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21)

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Representations of the 'girl' in Children’s Books

A half-day online literature course

Introduction to Vorticism

A half-day online history of art course

York’s Medieval City Walls

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Philosophy of Depression

A 2 week online philosophy course

Songs of Travel

A half-day online creative writing course

Arab and Norman Art in Palermo

A 2 week online history of art course

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, The Last Lancastrian Queen?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Beginning your Family History

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Cistercian Order in England

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Medieval Alliterative Poetry: The Vision of Piers Plowman

A half-day online literature course

Polish Nationalism, Solidarity and the Fall of the Communist Bloc (1980- 1991)

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Thomas Cromwell: A Ruthless ‘Agent of Satan’ or Faithful Servant?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders: Warriors, Poets, and Sorceresses

A full-day literature course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

An Introduction to Visual Poetry III: Print Poems

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

An Introduction to the Northern Renaissance: Art in the Age of Jan van Eyck

A full-day history of art course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Birds in Archaeology

A half-day online history and heritage course

Exploring the Domesday Book

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)