Creative Writing

• Dear Diary... Journals, Blogs and Memoir - 20 October
• Creating Convincing Characters in Fiction - 27 October
• Writing with the Ear: Part One - 3 November
• Creating Fiction: The Role of Conflict and Desire - 10 November
• Writing Creatively About Art - 17 November
• Writing for Online Audiences - 17 November
• Look Who’s Talking: Characters, Point of View and Narrative Voice - 24 November
• Exploring the Prose Poem - 8 December

History and Heritage

• History of the King’s Manor - 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
• History of the King’s Manor (second cohort) - 3 November **new**
• 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 (second cohort) - 1 December **new**
• 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

History of Art

• Annie Swynnerton: Pioneering Woman Artist - 6 October
• El Greco (1541-1614): Unity of Opposites - 27 October **please note new date**
• What is Baroque? - 27 October
• Art History in 100 Paintings (c.20,000BC to 1900) - 10 November
• Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul: The Three Identities of an Iconic City - 17 Novermber
• Altarpieces in Action - 24 November

Literature

• How to Read A Poem - 27 October
• Dragons: From Medieval Tales to Modern Fantasy - 3 November
• Reading Theory: An Introduction - 10 November
• The Garden in Poetry - 17 November
• Rediscovering Literature’s Value - 24 November
• Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? A Date with TS Eliot - 1 December
• Literary Adaptations - 8 December ***Please note new date***

Music

• ‘Embracing Everything’: The Symphony - 27 October
• Kind of Blue: The History of Jazz - 3 November
• Kind of Blue: The History of Jazz (second cohort) - 17 November **new**
• The Nordic Symphony - 24 November
• Bang a Gong! An Introduction to Javanese Gamelan Music - 1 December
• From the Pulpit to the Pub: the Eighteenth-Century Carol Singing Revival - 8 December

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• What is Beauty? Philosophical and Theological Perspectives - 3 November
• What is Consciousness? - 17 November
• ‘And she laid him in a manger’: The Christian Nativity Narratives - 8 December

Social Sciences 

• The Psychology of Behaviour - 10 October
• Economics in Context: A Short History of Economic Thought and Society - 1 December

Creative Writing

• How to Write Voice-Driven Fiction - 19 January
• Being a Writer - 2 February
• Character Building - 9 February
• We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: World Building and Settings - 16 February
• Flash Fiction Workshop - 23 February
• Writing with the Ear: Part Two - 2 March
• A Writer’s Workout: Part Three - 9 March
• Action! Plot and Structure in Fiction - 16 March
• Creative Writing and the Visual Arts - 23 March
• Becoming a Poet: Finding Your Voice in Dialogue with Visual Art - 30 March

History and Heritage

• 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
• Anglo-Saxon England: Part I (c.500-796) (second cohort) - 9 March **new**
• 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
• The Medieval Village (second cohort) - 16 March **new**
• York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate - 23 March
• The St William Window, York Minster (second cohort) - 23 March **new**
• The Tirell Murders: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? - 30 March

History of Art

• Spotlight on Georgia O’Keeffe - 19 January
• Modern Art in 100 Works (1900-2017) - 26 January
• Edward Burne-Jones: Painter of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic and Symbolist Dream Worlds - 2 February
• The Paintings of Caravaggio - 16 February
• Chinoiserie and Orientalism in Sicily - 23 February
• State Regalia in the Collections of the Moscow Kremlin - 2 March
• The Silk Road and the Islamic Heritage in Central Asia - 9 March
• The Paintings of Caravaggio (second cohort) - 16 March **new**
• The Silk Road and the Islamic Heritage in Central Asia (second cohort) - 23 March **new**

Literature

• Latin Yesterday, Today and For Ever: A Brief History of Latin - 19 January
• Introducing Little Red Riding Hood - 26 January
• Don’t Look Back in Anger: The 1950s on the Page and the Big Screen - 9 February
• From Ovid to Oz: A Brief Cultural History of Werewolves - 23 February
• Fairy Tales for Boys - 9 March
• Classical Literature: Meeting the Ancient Authors - 16 March

Music

• Nationalism in Late Nineteenth Century Viennese Musical Life - 2 February
• Schubert’s Settings of Mayrhofer - 23 February
• Music in the York Mystery Plays - 9 March

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• Poetry as Theology - 26 January

Social Sciences 

• Psychotherapy: A Controversial and Constructive Critique - 9 February
• The Amazing Human Brain - 2 March

Stage and Screen

• Cinematic Romanticism; or, an Old Look at a New Art - 16 February
• A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema - 2 March (for 4 consecutive weeks)

Creative Writing

• Secrets of Writing Short Stories - 27 April
• Engaging the Audience - 4 May
• Edit and Polish Your Prose - 11 May
• Poetry, Performance, Collaboration - 18 May
• Writing for Well-being and Relaxation - 25 May
• An Introduction to Genre Fiction - 8 June
• Write Without Cliché - 22 June

History and Heritage

• 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 Great East Window, York Minster (second cohort) - 11 May **new**
• 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) (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 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

• ‘Something Old, Something, New’: Approaching Contemporary Music - 27 April

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

• A Kestrel for a Knave: The World of Birds of Prey - 15 June

Social Sciences 

• Talking Politicians - 8 June