A Writer's Workout: Part One

Creative Writing Saturday course

Who was King Harold?

History and Heritage Saturday course

The British and French Campaigns in Egypt and Syria (1798-1801)

History and Heritage Saturday course

Markets and Fairs Over Eight Centuries

History and Heritage Saturday course

William Wordsworth

Literature Saturday course

From Bowler Hats to Circular Breathing: The Evolution of British Jazz

Music Saturday course

A Morning with Mindfulness: Bringing Awareness to Everyday Life

Saturday half-day Social Sciences course

'Dust, Worms and Vile Flesh': The Art of Death in Medieval England

History of Art Saturday course

Brief History: Poetry and Transformation

Creative Writing Saturday course

History Mysteries: The Death of Richard II

History and Heritage Saturday course

Writing the Peterloo Massacre

Literature Saturday course

Our Mother, Who Art in Heaven: Feminist Theologies and Finding the Feminine Divine

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Sainte-Chapelle: The Making of France

History and Heritage Saturday course

Mendelssohn’s Chamber and Keyboard Music (Tuesdays)

6 week Music course

Mendelssohn’s Chamber and Keyboard Music (Wednesdays)

6 week Music course

Inside Out and Upside Down Day

Creative Writing Saturday course

People and Place Names (second cohort)

History and Heritage Saturday course

History of Grays Court: The Oldest Inhabited House in York

History and Heritage Saturday course

A Day with Robert Frost

Literature Saturday course

People’s Votes? Political Engagement from Elections to Demonstrations

Saturday Social Sciences course

September 1939: A Not Unexpected War?

History and Heritage Saturday course

Marvellous Monsters and Where to Find Them

History of Art Saturday course

Make Your Reader Worry and Wonder

Creative Writing Saturday course

Troy and the Mycenaean World

History and Heritage Saturday course

People and Place Names

History and Heritage Saturday course

Art History in 100 Paintings (c.20,000BC to 1900)

History of Art Saturday course

Nationalism in Late Nineteenth Century Viennese Musical Life

Music Saturday course

‘And she laid him in a manger': The Christian Nativity Narratives

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

‘Who’s Talking?’ Writing Realistic Dialogue

Creative Writing Saturday course

Troy and the Mycenaean World (second cohort)

History and Heritage Saturday course

‘Art in Little’ at the Tudor Court

History and Heritage Saturday course

Italian-Turkish Architectural Encounters in Late-Ottoman Istanbul

History of Art Saturday course

Stories in Sound: The Role of Music in Film

Music Saturday course

The Mysteries of Mother Shipton and her Links to York

History and Heritage Saturday course

An Excursion through TS Eliot’s The Waste Land

Literature Saturday course

Writing the Novel: Action, Plot and Structure

Creative Writing Saturday course

Working on the Line: the Life and Times of York's Early Railway Families

History and Heritage Saturday course

Simon de Montfort and the Origins of Parliament

History and Heritage Saturday course

Painting in Paris

History of Art Saturday course

Poems for a Winter Evening

Saturday Literature course

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Lucid Dreaming

Saturday half-day Social Sciences course

Writing Poetry with the Poet-Critics

Creative Writing Saturday courses

A Mad World: An Introduction to the Cultural History of Madness and Mental Health in Britain

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Art of Early Medieval York

History of Art Saturday course

'Two Wolves in the Wood': Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Saturday Literature course

An Introduction to Infinity

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!' The Berlin Wall Falls

History and Heritage Saturday course

Rhyme, Rhythm and Syllabics

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Story and Characters in the Bayeux Tapestry

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Magic and Mystery of Christmas

Saturday Literature course

Hark the Herald Angels Sing: The Development of Christmas Carols

Music Saturday course

'Purloined by Travelling Antiquaries' and other Peculiar Tales of Medieval Pavements

History and Heritage Saturday course

Master Plots: Writing a Novel and Preparing for Publication

Accredited 11 week Creative Writing course

The Lives and Deeds of the Three Richards: The Lion-hearted, the Feeble One, and the Tyrant

Accredited 11 week History and Heritage course

Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Accredited 11 week Literature and Philosophy course

The Psychology of Art

Accredited 11 week Social Sciences course

War Writing and Writing War

Accredited 11 week Creative Writing course

Introduction to Social Psychology

Accredited 11 week Social Sciences course

The History and Theory of Archaeology (Core module)

Accredited 11 week Archaeology course

Textiles of Medieval Europe (c.500-c.1500)

Accredited 11 week History and Heritage course

Victorian Voices

Accredited 11 week Literature and Philosophy course

Writers Reading: The Close Study of Literary Texts

Accredited 11 week Creative Writing course

The History of Museums: Collecting and Curating the Past

Accredited 11 week History of Art course

Reconsidering Society: Learning to Think Sociologically

Accredited 11 week Social Sciences course

Online Fiction Writing Workshop

10 week online Creative Writing course

The Development and Impact of Britain’s Railways (1825-1914)

6 week online History and Heritage course

Sir Walter Scott: Author of Waverley

8 week Literature course

Inside Out: Therapeutic Creative Writing

5 week Creative Writing course

Fascism(s): Past and Present

8 week History and Heritage course

Education in Early Modern England (c.1480-c.1650)

8 week History and Heritage course

Representation and Identity: From Icons to the iPhone

8 week History of Art course

Robert Louis Stevenson

8 week Literature course

The Stories Behind the Music

8 week Music course

From the Wright Brothers to Rocket Science

8 week Science and Earth Science course

Universal Credit: How did we get here? An Introduction to Welfare

8 week Social Sciences course

Mendelssohn's Orchestral and Choral Music (Tuesdays)

6 week Music course

The Twelfth-Century Renaissance

8 week History and Heritage course

The First North Americans

5 week History and Heritage course

Behind the Front Door: A Glimpse into York's Social History

6 week History and Heritage course

Honour Related Violence

8 week Social Sciences course

Writing Children’s Fiction

8 week Creative Writing course

Medieval Ships and Shipping: From Viking Longboats to Venetian Galleys

8 week History and Heritage course

Intertwined Lives: A Short History of Animals in the Past

6 week History and Heritage course

Heretics and Inquisitors in Thirteenth Century Languedoc

8 week History and Heritage course

The Art of the Insular World: England, Scotland and Ireland (c.600-1000AD)

8 week History of Art course

Not Just the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction in 2019

8 week Literature course

Is Christianity Good for Women? An Introduction to Feminist Theologies

8 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Accent and Discrimination in the British Isles

8 week Social Sciences course

Mendelssohn's Orchestral and Choral Music (Wednesdays)

6 week Music course

Other People’s Money: Swindles, Manias, Bubbles and Crashes

8 week History and Heritage course

Norman Abbeys in Normandy, England and Italy

8 week History and Heritage course

Berlin Wintergarten (1895) to Babelsberg, Potsdam (1940)

8 week History and Heritage course

The Muse: Poetry and the Creative Spark

8 week Creative Writing course

Historical Drama on Screen

6 week History and Heritage course

Gender and Work Through the Ages (c.1300-c.2000)

8 week History and Heritage course

‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’: The Politics of Popular Culture in Post-War Britain

8 week History and Heritage course

Participation and the Aesthetic Moment

8 week History of Art course

The Fiction of Muriel Spark

8 week Literature course

Dealing with Stress the Mindful Way

8 week Social Sciences course

Travelling in the Middle Ages

8 week History and Heritage course

The Dreyfus Affair

8 week History and Heritage course

The Old Testament in Art

8 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Five Steps to Self-Publishing Success

5 week Creative Writing course

The Wars of the Three Edwards (1272-1377)

8 week History and Heritage course

Great Stately Homes in Northern England

8 week History and Heritage course

The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelites

8 week History of Art course

Romantic Life-Writing

8 week Literature course

‘Man, you must be puttin' me on’: Bob Dylan the Nobel Poet

8 week Literature course

Musical Religious Dramas: The Ordo Virtutum to The Book of Mormon

5 week Music course

Introduction to Geology

8 week Science and Earth Science course

Insane Society and Mental Health

6 week Social Sciences course

Medieval Merchants

History and Heritage Saturday course

Painting Women in Nineteenth Century France

History of Art Saturday course

Invisible Cities: The Literature of Italo Calvino

Literature Saturday course

An Unquiet Peace: Europe (1918-23)

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

A Brief Introduction to the Medieval Parish Church

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

Writing a Novel: Look Who’s Talking!

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Archaeology of Roman Britain

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Enlightenment: A Crash Course

History and Heritage Saturday course

Medieval Festivals and Holidays

History and Heritage Saturday course

British Art in the 1950s

History of Art Saturday course

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics!

Saturday half-day Social Sciences course

Writing the Stranger and the Self

Creative Writing Saturday course

History Mysteries: Who was Jack the Ripper?

History and Heritage Saturday course

Once Upon a Monster

Literature Saturday course

Gems from the Vinyl Vaults: Unsung Heroes and Heroines of Rock, Folk, Blues and Soul

Music Saturday course

Writing Poems about Paintings

Creative Writing Saturday course

Who was William the Conqueror?

History and Heritage Saturday course

What is Love? Lessons from Plato’s Symposium

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

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

History and Heritage Saturday course

Mantegna and Bellini: Elan vs Serenity

History of Art Saturday course

Read Like a Writer

Creative Writing Saturday course

Yorkshire and the Industrial Revolution

History and Heritage Saturday course

A Brief History of the Library

History and Heritage Saturday course

Psychoanalysing Dracula

Saturday Literature course

The Conservation and Care of Historic Stained Glass

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

Madness: Insane Psychiatrists and Asylums?

Saturday half-day Social Sciences course

Writing a Novel: World Building and Setting

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Complete Pompeii: Digging Deeper

History and Heritage Saturday course

Medieval York: An Archaeology of Power

History and Heritage Saturday course

Inside the Museum

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Painting and Sculpture of Michelangelo

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Films of Agnès Varda

4 week Stage and Screen course

Understanding Picture Books

Creative Writing Saturday course

Strathclyde: The Last Kingdom of the Britons

History and Heritage Saturday course

History of Spain: From Roman Hispania to the Caliphate of Cordoba

History and Heritage Saturday course

Al-Qahira (The City Victorious): A Portrait of Islamic Cairo

History of Art Saturday course

The Medieval Colour Palette

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

Next Week On... Writing Collections, Sequels and Serialised Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

York's Churches and Chapels

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

Discovering University Sculpture Parks: From Hepworth to Gormley

History of Art Saturday course

29 October 1929: The Great Crash and its Consequences

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

An Introduction to Relativity

Saturday half-day Science and Earth Science course

Novel Questions

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Industrial Revolution: A Crash Course

History and Heritage Saturday course

Building the Mansion House

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Painting and Sculpture of Michelangelo (second cohort)

History and Heritage Saturday course

'The Best Minds of My Generation': Beat Writers and the Rise of the Counter-Culture

Literature Saturday course

Luminous Metaphysics: Arkhip Kuindzhi and Magical Realism

History of Art Saturday course

The Gothic Cathedral in France and England

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain

History and Heritage Saturday course

A Day with Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Literature Saturday course

Democracy... and its Decline? Government and the People in Britain (1914-2010)

10 week History and Heritage course

Online Creative Writing: Building Great Fiction

10 week online Creative Writing course

The History of London’s Transport (1860-1962)

6 week online History and Heritage course

Tracing the History of York Through its Buildings

10 week History and Heritage course

Machines, Monsters, Magic and Murder: Writing Genre Fictions

Accredited 11 week course online

History and Legend of King Arthur (c.830-c.1540)

Accredited 11 week History and Heritage course

The Materiality of Art in the Long Nineteenth-Century (1789-1914)

Accredited 11 week History of Art course

An Introduction to the Psychology of Change

Accredited Social Sciences course

Writing Page-turners: Building Suspense in Fiction

6 week Creative Writing course

The French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon (1789-1815)

10 week History and Heritage course

Nuns: A Cultural History

10 week History and Heritage course

Paris: The Art and History of the City of Light

10 week History of Art course

Writing New York

8 week Literature course

Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry

10 week Literature course

An Introduction to Galaxies and the Universe

10 week Science and Earth Science course

A Filmography of our Mythical Imagination

8 week Stage and Screen course

The Knights Templar: History, Myths and Legends

10 week History and Heritage course

‘Prose Like A Window Pane’: George Orwell for Beginners

10 week History and Heritage course

The Artist's Studio Through the Centuries

10 week History of Art course

Heroes and History

Accredited 11 week History and Heritage course

Rewriting the Centre: Contemporary Postcolonial Literature

Accredited 11 week Literature and Philosophy course

Political Correctness Gone Mad? Introducing Equality and Diversity

Accredited 11 week Social Sciences course

Novel Ends: Completing the Novel

10 week Creative Writing course

The History of Normandy: From the Vikings to D-Day

10 week History and Heritage course

Making a Multicultural Nation: Race, Immigration, and Citizenship in Twentieth Century Britain

10 week History and Heritage course

Introduction to Travel Literature

8 week Literature course

The Idea of Musical Romanticism

8 week Music course

Sound Speed! The History and Evolution of Film Sound

10 week Stage and Screen course

Shakespeare’s ‘Problem’ Plays

10 week Literature course

York Medieval Stained Glass in situ

10 week History and Heritage course

The Holocaust

10 week History and Heritage course

Healing Words: How Poetry Can Soothe our Stressed Minds

8 week Literature course

Later Venetian Renaissance Painting

10 week History of Art course

The Archaeology of York’s Historic Buildings

Accredited 11 week Archaeology course

The Drama of It All: Scriptwriting For Stage, Screen And Radio

Accredited 11 week Creative Writing course

The History of Yorkshire

Accredited 11 week History and Heritage course

Introduction to Critical Sociology

Accredited 11 week Social Sciences course

Writing Stories to Change the World: Political Creative Writing

10 week Creative Writing course

The Maritime Republics: Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Amalfi

10 week History and Heritage course

British Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

8 week History of Art course

Roses are Red and White: Four of Yorkshire and Lancashire’s Finest Writers

8 week Literature course

‘Paper Tigresses’: Forty Years of Virago Modern Classics

10 week Literature course

The Jews of England

10 week History and Heritage course

History Mysteries: Who is Buried in Sutton Hoo?

History and Heritage Saturday course

Islamic Art in Italy: Venice, Florence and Urbino

History of Art Saturday course

The Wind in the Willows and the Meaning of Life

Literature Saturday course

Stepping on the Stage of History: Modern Humans in the Upper Palaeolithic

10 week History and Heritage course

By Right or By Might? The Wars of the Roses in the North

10 week History and Heritage course

The Nordic and Canadian Landscape (1890-1930)

10 week History of Art course

‘A Pure Woman’: Love and Marriage in Thomas Hardy's Wessex

10 week Literature course

Where Do Ideas Come From?

Creative Writing Saturday course

The History of St Mary’s Abbey and the Abbot’s Manor

History and Heritage Saturday course

The Emergence of Modern Art

History of Art Saturday course

A Day at Briggflatts

Literature Saturday course

Current Topics in Biology: Sustainable Food

Saturday Science and Earth Science course

How Did Britain Become Roman?

History and Heritage Saturday course

Flashpoints and Candy Bombers: Assessing the Berlin Blockade (1948-49)

History and Heritage half-day Saturday course

Writing a Novel: Engaging the Audience

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Conquests of Wales

History and Heritage Saturday course

An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill

Literature Saturday course

The Death of God

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Writing Short Stories

Creative Writing Saturday course

History of Spain: The Reconquest (1000-1500)

History and Heritage Saturday course

History of Art: Developing a Worldwide View

History of Art Saturday course

‘Down these mean streets...’

Literature Saturday course

Performance Writing

Creative Writing Saturday course

York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate

History and Heritage Saturday course

Literary Exiles and Émigrés: James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield

Literature Saturday course

Building the Guild Hall

History and Heritage Saturday course

A New Heaven and a New Earth: An Introduction to the Book of Revelation

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

The Winter of Discontent, Mrs Thatcher and the 1979 May Election

History and Heritage Saturday course

'Keep This Voucher - It Is Of Value': What Was Rowntree & Co.'s Marketing Revolution?

History and Heritage Saturday course

‘Wonderful Things’: Ancient Egypt - Collected, Curated and Displayed

History and Heritage Saturday course

Introduction to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Literature half-day Saturday course

Current Topics in Biology: Our Climate

Saturday Science and Earth Science course

Preparing to Submit

Creative Writing Saturday course

The History of York’s Merchants Adventurers and their Hall

History and Heritage Saturday course

French Connections and the Camden Town Group

History of Art Saturday course

A Day with John Donne

Literature Saturday course

Writing the Wild: Nature Writing

Creative Writing Saturday course

Prophecy, Propaganda and Portraits: How to Rule a Nation?

History and Heritage Saturday course

Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe and the Gothic Revival

Literature Saturday course

Strange Fruit: Women Pioneers of Jazz

Music Saturday course

Durham Cathedral: History Set in Stone

History and Heritage Saturday course

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

History and Heritage Saturday course

A Writer's Workout: Part Two

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Search for ‘Kynde Knowinge’

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Current Topics in Biology: Public Health Decisions at Scale

Saturday half-day Science and Earth Science course

'Irrational Exuberance?’ Financial Manias, Crashes and Bubbles from 17th Century to the Present

Saturday half-day Social Sciences course