Daytime Classes

• Tracing the History of York through its Buildings - Tuesdays
• Der DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik): Life and Culture ***please note this class has now moved to the Spring term***
• History of Spain (c.700-1492) - Wednesdays
• Brocades and Cloths of Gold: Medieval Textiles and Fashion - Thursdays
• The Long Weekend: Britain Between the Wars (1918-39) - Thursdays
• Tracing the History of York through its Buildings (second cohort) - Fridays

Evening Classes and Online Classes

• Becoming Human: The Long Journey of the Palaeolithic - Mondays
• Church: The Medieval Superpower? - Mondays
• Medieval Travel Writing - Mondays
• History of France (987-1453) - Tuesdays
• Yorkshire and the Jacobites - Tuesdays
• Insults, Wars and Resistance: How the West Acquired and Lost its Far Eastern Empires - Wednesdays
• Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Wednesdays
• Disability in the Modern Age (1914-2018) - Thursdays
• ‘Mind the Steppes!’ Nomads and their Impact on Medieval Europe (c.300-c.1400) - Thursdays
• ‘Wonderful Things’: Ancient Egypt - Collected, Curated and Displayed - Thursdays
• The History of London’s Transport (1860-1962) (Autumn) - Online

Saturday Classes

• History of the King’s Manor - 6 October
• Introduction to Heritage Conservation - 6 October
• ‘The Whore of Babylon’: How Corrupt Was the English Church on the Eve of the Reformation - 6 October
• Medieval York through the Eyes of William Snawsell - 20 October
• York Mystery Plays 2018: Waggons in the City - 20 October
• The Battle of Neville’s Cross - 27 October
• The Making of Witches: Religion, Sexuality and Community in Early Modern Europe - 27 October
• A Muddy History of Britain: Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution - 3 November
• Now That The War is Over... Life in the Aftermath of the First World War - 3 November
• History of the King’s Manor (second cohort) - 3 November
• Elizabeth I and the Cult of Gloriana - 10 November
• The Bayeux Tapestry - 10 November
• 1918: Haig, the 100 Days, and the Forgotten Victory - 17 November
• Medieval York Minster: A Sensory History - 17 November
• Introduction to Heraldry - 24 November
• The Medieval Village - 24 November
• ‘Straws in the Wind?’ British Attitudes to Total War (1914-1918) - 1 December
• The Dawn of Cultural Heritage Conservation - 1 December
• The First North Americans: An Introduction to the Archaeology of North America - 1 December
• Exploring Classical Mythology: Lands of Myths and Legends - 8 December
• Maya of Yucatan: An Introduction - 8 December
• The Tirell Murders: Who Killed William Rufus? - 8 December

Daytime Classes

• Medieval English Drama: Mystery Plays and Beyond - Tuesdays
• Der DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik): Life and Culture - Wednesdays ***please note this class has moved from the Autumn term***
• The Hundred Yearsʼ War - Wednesdays
• Saints and Sinners: Popes and Monks in Medieval Europe - Thursdays
• The Dreyfus Affair - Thursdays

Evening Classes and Online Classes

• Divorced, beheaded, died? Life, Power and Image for Tudor Women - Mondays
• ‘Government for the People?’ Co-operation and Confrontation in British Democracy - Mondays
• How Did Britain Become Roman? - Mondays
• Cultural Heritage: The Ethics and Politics of Preserving the Past - Tuesdays
• The Knights Hospitaller: From the Holy Land to Malta - Tuesdays
• A Brief History of the Atlantic - Wednesdays
• Medieval Cathedrals in Northern England - Wednesdays
• Capitalism, Colonialism, Consumption: Material Culture of the Early Modern World - Thursdays
• The Creation of the County of Yorkshire - Thursdays
• The Development and Impact of Britain’s Railways (1825-1914) - Online

Saturday Classes

• Edward II, Thomas of Lancaster and the Battle of Boroughbridge - 19 January
• What happened to the Nuns? Sixteenth-Century England, Myth and Religious Women after the Dissolution of the Monasteries - 19 January
• The Conservation and Care of Historic Stained Glass - 26 January
• Aztecs of Mexico: An Introduction - 26 January
• The Knights Templar in Britain - 26 January
• Incas of Peru: An Introduction - 2 February
• When was the Protestant Reformation in Tudor England? - 2 February
• A Mediterranean Tour: Not Just a Load of Old Stones - 9 February
• Archbishop Scrope’s Rebellion and the City of York - 9 February
• Coins in Archaeology - 16 February
• Using Maps for Local and Family History - 16 February
• Introduction to Historic Photographic Processes and Their Preservation - 23 February
• The Domesday Book - 23 February
• Polish Nationalism, Solidarity and the Fall of the Communist Bloc (1980-1991) - 2 March
• Anglo-Saxon England: Part I (c.500-796) - 2 March
• A ‘Dear Lady Friend’ or an ‘Interfering Do-Gooder’? The Real Story Behind the Female Missionary - 9 March
• Robin Hood and the Abbot of St Mary’s - 9 March
• Preserving and Conserving Our Historic Houses and Collections - 16 March
• Pottery in Archaeology - 16 March
• The St William Window, York Minster - 16 March
• York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate - 23 March
• The St William Window, York Minster (second cohort) - 23 March
• The Tirell Murders: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? - 30 March

Daytime Classes

• York Medieval Stained Glass in situ - Wednesdays
• Medieval Christianity: East and West - Thursdays
• The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) - Thursdays
• Austerity to Affluence: British Political History (1945-70)

Evening Classes and Online Classes

• Nuns: A Cultural History - Mondays
• Understanding the People of the Past - Mondays
• A Century of Gender History (1918-2018) - Tuesdays
• Building the Empire: A Primer in Roman Architecture - Tuesdays
• Everyday Life in a Medieval University - Tuesdays
• Fabled Oceans, Imaginary Islands, Cities of Gold: The Role of Accident in European Exploration - Wednesdays
• The Borgias - Wednesdays
• History and Heritage: Exploring Africa - Thursdays
• Medieval Women - Thursdays
• The Tudor North - Thursdays
• The History of London’s Transport (1860-1962) (Summer) - Online

Saturday Classes

• The Medieval Colour Palette - 27 April
• The Trials and Tribulations of Lady Anne Clifford - 27 April
• The Archaeology of Prehistoric Britain: Digging into our Ancient Past - 4 May
• The Great East Window, York Minster - 4 May
• The Stories Behind Coins: An Exploration of 2000 Years of Interesting, Confusing, and Controversial Coinage - 11 May
• History Myths: Did Alfred Burn the Cakes? - 11 May
• Before the Storm: England (1909-11) - 18 May
• A Day in Medieval Bruges - 18 May
• Paper and Parchment: Its History, Manufacture and Conservation - 25 May
• How the Vote was Won: Women’s Rights and the 1918 Representation of the People Act - 1 June
• Why Was Aethelraed Unraed Nicknamed the ‘Unready’? - 1 June
• All Saints’ North Street’s Stained Glass Windows - 8 June
• Your Mother Was a Hamster! Medieval Insults and How to Use Them - 8 June
• Apocalypse Now: The End of the World in Historical Context - 15 June
• Anglo-Saxon England: Part II (c.800-1066) - 22 June
• York’s City Walls - 22 June
• Penda, Oswy and the Battle of Winwaed - 29 June
• Were Tudor People like Us? Some Thoughts on English Society (1485-1603) - 29 June