Upcoming courses and events

The Centre for Lifelong Learning runs a wide programme of courses and events throughout the year. Please see below for a full list of our upcoming accredited, non-accredited and Saturday courses, as well as our free lectures.

Sat
23
Feb

The Domesday Book

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
23
Feb

Chinoiserie and Orientalism in Sicily

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
23
Feb

Schubert’s Settings of Mayrhofer

2 week Saturday Music course

Sat
2
Mar

Rashomon - Film Screening

A non-accredited stage and screen course in partnership with City Screen Picturehouse York. Part of our film series 'A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema'

Sat
2
Mar

A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema

4 week film course

Sat
2
Mar

Anglo-Saxon England: Part I (c.500-796)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
2
Mar

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

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
2
Mar

State Regalia in the Collections of the Moscow Kremlin

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
2
Mar

The Amazing Human Brain

Saturday Social Sciences course

Sat
9
Mar

Tokyo Story - Film Screening

A non-accredited stage and screen course in partnership with City Screen Picturehouse York. Part of our film series 'A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema'.

Sat
9
Mar

Action! Plot and Structure in Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
9
Mar

A Writer’s Workout: Part Three

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
9
Mar

Anglo-Saxon England: Part I (c.500-796) (second cohort)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
9
Mar

Robin Hood and the Abbot of St Mary’s

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
9
Mar

A ‘Dear Lady Friend’ or an ‘Interfering Do-Gooder’? The Real Story Behind the Female Missionary

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
9
Mar

The Silk Road and the Islamic Heritage in Central Asia

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
9
Mar

Fairy Tales for Boys

Saturday Literature course

Sat
9
Mar

Music in the York Mystery Plays

Saturday Music course

Sat
16
Mar

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs - Film Screening

A non-accredited stage and screen course in partnership with City Screen Picturehouse York. Part of our film series 'A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema'.

Sat
16
Mar

The Medieval Village (second cohort)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
16
Mar

The St William Window, York Minster

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
16
Mar

Pottery in Archaeology

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
16
Mar

The Paintings of Caravaggio (second cohort)

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
16
Mar

Classical Literature: Meeting the Ancient Authors

Saturday Literature course

Sat
23
Mar

Woman of the Dunes - Film Screening

A non-accredited stage and screen course in partnership with City Screen Picturehouse York. Part of our film series 'A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema'.

Sat
23
Mar

The St William Window, York Minster

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
23
Mar

York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
23
Mar

The Silk Road and the Islamic Heritage in Central Asia (second cohort)

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
30
Mar

Becoming a Poet: Finding Your Voice in Dialogue with Visual Art

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
30
Mar

The Tirell Murders: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Mon
8
Apr

‘Something Old, Something, New’: Approaching Contemporary Music

Saturday Music course

Mon
15
Apr

Online Creative Writing: Building Great Fiction (Summer)

Online 10 week course

Mon
15
Apr

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

Online 6 week History and Heritage course

Mon
15
Apr

Nuns: A Cultural History

10 week History and Heritage course

Mon
15
Apr

American Art: Forging a Nation in Images

10 week History of Art course

Mon
15
Apr

The Sonnet

10 week Literature course

Mon
15
Apr

From ‘Loose, Baggy Monsters’ to ‘Make it New!’ Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

10 week Literature course

Tue
16
Apr

Tracing the History of York through its Buildings (third cohort)

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Tue
16
Apr

Literary Adventures in Creative Writing

Non-accredited 10 week course

Tue
16
Apr

Everyday Life in a Medieval University

10 week History and Heritage course

Tue
16
Apr

Building the Empire: A Primer in Roman Architecture

10 week History and Heritage course

Tue
16
Apr

Great Museums and Galleries of Europe

10 week History of Art course

Tue
16
Apr

The Fiction of David Foster Wallace

10 week Literature course

Tue
16
Apr

An Introduction to Japanese Literature

10 week Literature course

Tue
16
Apr

Mastering the Mysteries of Manuscript to Melody: Medieval Music and its Notation

10 week Music course

Tue
16
Apr

Aesthetics and Politics

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Tue
16
Apr

An Introduction to Human Memory

10 week Social Sciences course

Tue
16
Apr

Writing About the World: Contemporary Forms of Creative Non-Fiction

Accredited 11 week course

Tue
16
Apr

America Through Contemporary Short Stories

Accredited 11 week course

Tue
16
Apr

An Introduction to the Psychology of Relationships

Accredited 11 week course

Wed
17
Apr

York Medieval Stained Glass in situ

10 week History and Heritage course

Wed
17
Apr

An Introduction to the New Testament

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Wed
17
Apr

Poetry Breaking Boundaries

Non-accredited 10 week course

Wed
17
Apr

The Borgias

10 week History and Heritage course

Wed
17
Apr

Fabled Oceans, Imaginary Islands, Cities of Gold: The Role of Accident in European Exploration

10 week History and Heritage

Wed
17
Apr

Understanding the Photograph

8 week History of Art course

Wed
17
Apr

Shakespearean Drama: Texts, Contexts and Critical Approaches

7 week Literature course

Wed
17
Apr

English-Language Welsh Poetry

10 week Literature course

Wed
17
Apr

Citizenship: Your Rights and Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Britain

10 week Social Sciences course

Wed
17
Apr

Machines, Monsters, Magic and Murder: Writing Genre Fictions

Accredited 11 week course

Wed
17
Apr

The English Civil Wars and Interregnum (c.1637-1661)

Accredited 11 week course

Wed
17
Apr

Introduction to Developmental Psychology

Accredited 11 week course

Thu
18
Apr

Shakespeare and the History Play

10 week Literature course

Thu
18
Apr

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39)

10 week History and Heritage course

Thu
18
Apr

Medieval Christianity: East and West

10 week History and Heritage course

Thu
18
Apr

Venetian Painting (1470-1530): Bellini, Giorgione, Titian

10 week History of Art course

Thu
18
Apr

An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology

Accredited 11 week course

Thu
18
Apr

Novel Ends: Completing the Novel

Non-accredited 10 week Creative Writing course

Thu
18
Apr

The Tudor North

10 week History and Heritage course

Thu
18
Apr

Medieval Women

6 week History and Heritage course

Thu
18
Apr

History and Heritage: Exploring Africa

10 week History and Heritage course

Thu
18
Apr

The Splendour of the Northern Renaissance

10 week History of Art course

Thu
18
Apr

From Poetics to Postmodernism: A Potted History of Literary Criticism

10 week Literature course

Thu
18
Apr

Monks, Mystics and Martyrs of Yorkshire

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Thu
18
Apr

From Sonnet to Slam: Exploring the Writing of Poetry Using Form

Accredited 11 week course

Thu
18
Apr

Early Medieval Europe (c.300-1000AD)

Accredited 11 week course

Thu
18
Apr

Materials in the Medieval World: England and the British Isles (500-1200AD)

Accredited 11 week course

Thu
25
Apr

The Stories Behind the Music

8 week Music course

Sat
27
Apr

Secrets of Writing Short Stories

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
27
Apr

The Trials and Tribulations of Lady Anne Clifford

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
27
Apr

Christianity in a World Come of Age: The Life and Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Mon
29
Apr

Online Fiction Writing Workshop (Summer)

Online 10 week course

Sat
4
May

Engaging the Audience

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
4
May

The Great East Window, York Minster

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
4
May

The Archaeology of Prehistoric Britain: Digging into our Ancient Past

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
4
May

Dangerous Art: Censorship and Iconoclasm through the Ages

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
4
May

Mad Women in the Attic... and Elsewhere

Saturday Literature course

Sat
11
May

Edit and Polish Your Prose

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
11
May

The Great East Window, York Minster (second cohort)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
11
May

Before the Storm: England (1909-11)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
11
May

History Myths: Did Alfred Burn the Cakes?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
11
May

Behind the Eyes of Big Brother: George Orwell and the English Sensibility

Saturday Literature course

Sat
18
May

Poetry, Performance, Collaboration

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
18
May

A Day in Medieval Bruges

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
18
May

The Louvre Museum, or ‘Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?’

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
18
May

‘And the greatest of these is love’: An Introduction to the Letters of St Paul

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Sat
25
May

Writing for Well-being and Relaxation

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
25
May

The Conservation and Care of Historic Stained Glass

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
25
May

The Art of the Mughals in the Indian Subcontinent

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
1
Jun

Why Was Aethelraed Unraed Nicknamed the ‘Unready’?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
1
Jun

How the Vote was Won: Women’s Rights and the 1918 Representation of the People Act

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
1
Jun

Criminological Crime Fiction

Saturday Literature course

Sat
1
Jun

Visual Art as Theology

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Sat
8
Jun

Creative Writing and the Visual Arts

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
8
Jun

An Introduction to Genre Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
8
Jun

Your Mother Was a Hamster! Medieval Insults and How to Use Them

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
8
Jun

All Saints’ North Street’s Stained Glass Windows

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
8
Jun

Talking Politicians

Saturday Social Sciences course

Sat
15
Jun

Anglo-Saxon England: Part II (c.800-1066) (second cohort)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
15
Jun

An Introduction to Sculpture in 100 Pieces

Saturday History of Art course

Sat
15
Jun

Apocalypse Now: The End of the World in Historical Context

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
15
Jun

A Kestrel for a Knave: The World of Birds of Prey

Saturday Science and Earth Science course

Sat
22
Jun

Write Without Cliché

Creative Writing Saturday course

Sat
22
Jun

York’s City Walls

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
22
Jun

Anglo-Saxon England: Part II (c.800-1066)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
22
Jun

As If By Magic...

Saturday Literature course

Sat
29
Jun

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

Saturday History and Heritage course

Sat
29
Jun

Penda, Oswy and the Battle of Winwaed

Saturday History and Heritage course