Saturday classes
Our 2018/19 courses are listed below, and can all be booked online (click on the green basket icon on the course page).
Summer 2019
Creative Writing
- Secrets of Writing Short Stories - 27 April
- Engaging the Audience - 11 May **please note new date**
- Edit and Polish Your Prose - 11 May
- Poetry, Performance, Collaboration - 18 May
- Writing for Well-being and Relaxation - 25 May
- Creative Writing and the Visual Arts - 8 June **please note new date**
- An Introduction to Genre Fiction - 8 June
- Write Without Cliché - 22 June
History and Heritage
- The Trials and Tribulations of Lady Anne Clifford - 27 April
- Anglo-Saxon England: Part I (c.500-796) (third cohort) - 27 April**new**
- The Medieval Village (third cohort) - 27 April **new**
- The Archaeology of Prehistoric Britain: Digging into our Ancient Past - 4 May
- The Great East Window, York Minster - 4 May
- The Great East Window, York Minster (second cohort) - 11 May **new**
- History Myths: Did Alfred Burn the Cakes? - 11 May
- Before the Storm: England (1909-11) - 11 May ***please note new date***
- Anglo-Saxon England: Part II (c.800-1066) (third cohort) - 25 May **new**
- 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) (second cohort) - 15 June **new**
- The Tirell Murders: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? (second cohort) - 15 June **new**
- 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
History of Art
- Dangerous Art: Censorship and Iconoclasm through the Ages - 4 May
- The Louvre Museum, or ‘Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?’ - 18 May
- The Paintings of Caravaggio (third cohort) - 18 May **additional date**
- The Art of the Mughals in the Indian Subcontinent - 25 May
- An Introduction to Sculpture in 100 Pieces - 15 June
Literature
- Mad Women in the Attic... and Elsewhere - 4 May
- Behind the Eyes of Big Brother: George Orwell and the English Sensibility - 11 May
- Criminological Crime Fiction - 1 June
- As If By Magic... - 22 June
Music
Religion, Culture and Philosophy
- Christianity in a World Come of Age: The Life and Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 27 April
- ‘And the greatest of these is love’: An Introduction to the Letters of St Paul - 18 May
- Visual Art as Theology - 1 June
Science and Earth Science
Social Sciences
- Talking Politicians - 8 June