Autumn

Professional Studies

• Dirty Money: Risk Management (Cancelled)

Creative Writing

• A Writer’s Workout: Part One
• Plotting and Planning a Novel
• From Spark to Page: Developing Ideas in Fiction Writing

History and Heritage

• Genocide or Gross Incompetence: The Irish Famine Reconsidered (1845-49)
• Henry VII’s Visits to York: A Tale of Pageants and Rebels
• The Story of Roman Britain through Coins (Cancelled)
• Travelling in the Middle Ages (fully booked)
• Travelling in the Middle Ages (second cohort)
• Passchendaele (July-November 1917): Hell on Earth?
• Rebellious York: York and the Pilgrimage of Grace (Fully Booked)
• Life after Death: Mummification in the Ancient Andes
• Making and Marketing Cloth in Medieval England
• Rebellious York: York and the Pilgrimage of Grace (Second Cohort) (Fully Booked)
• Historic Photographic Processes and How to Preserve Their Image
• The Camera in China: The Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
• Venice, Florence, and Palermo: The Making of Italy (Fully Booked)
• York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate (Fully Booked)
• 1066, The Year of Three Battles: Fulford, Stamford Bridge and Hastings
• Unlocking the Past: Skills and Methods for Historical Research
• Venice, Florence, and Palermo: The Making of Italy (Second Cohort)
• Alcuin of York and the Carolingian Renaissance (Fully Booked)
• Discovering Victorian Families
• The Truth About Life in Medieval York
• ‘Seeking Utopia’: The Russian Revolutions of 1917
• What is a Knight?

History of Art

• How to Read a Medieval Tile Pavement
• Leonardo as Painter
• An Introduction to Pre-Raphaelitism: The Early Decades
• The Architect Ernesto Basile and his Clients
• Altarpieces in Action
• Art History in 100 Paintings (c.20,000 to 1900) - Fully Booked
• Russia’s Domestic and International Politics During the Reign of Ivan IV the Terrible
• Cordoba, Seville and Granada: A Short History of Islamic Art and Architecture in Spain (Fully Booked)
• The Arab Hall at Leighton House, London
• Cordoba, Seville and Granada: A Short History of Islamic Art and Architecture in Spain (second cohort)
• German Art in Twenty Works
• Leonardo as Painter (Second Cohort)

Literature

• Poetry and Propaganda: Forgotten Voices from The Great War (Cancelled)
• Six Poems for Comfort
• From Ovid to Oz: A Brief Cultural History of Werewolves

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• Exploring Human Values: Human Being Between Authenticity and Identity
• An Introduction to the New Testament: The Synoptic Gospels
• An Introduction to the New Testament: St John’s Gospel
• How to Understand the Qur’an
• An Introduction to the New Testament: The Life and Letters of St Paul

Science and Earth Science

• A Geological History of Britain

Social Sciences

• Risk, Evidence and Decision Making
• Psychotherapy: A Controversial and Constructive Critique
• The Living Mountain: Women Mountaineers (New Date)

Spring

Professional Studies

• Data Protection: An Introduction

Creative Writing

• A Writer’s Workout: Part Two
• ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’: Creating Engaging Worlds in Fiction Writing

History and Heritage

• Towton: Yorkshire’s Bloodiest Battle?
• 1066, The Year of Three Battles: Fulford, Stamford Bridge and Hastings (second cohort)
• Alcuin of York and the Carolingian Renaissance (second cohort)
• York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate (Second cohort) (Fully Booked)
• Byzantine Art in Western Europe: Ravenna and Sicily
• It Takes One to Know One: Medieval Insults and How to Use Them
• Leisure and Pleasure: The Advent of Consumerism
• York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate (third cohort)
• Were Tudor People Like Us? Some Thoughts on English Society (1485-1603)
• Bede the Scientist
• ‘Keep This Voucher - It is of Value’: What Was Rowntree & Co.’s Marketing Revolution?
• The English Countryside in the Age of Richard III
• Mary Queen of Scots and the Rebellion of the Northern Earls
• ‘Bloody Butcher’ or the ‘Man who won the War’: Field Marshal Douglas Haig and First World War Generalship
• Preserving and Conserving our Historic Collections
• Towton: Yorkshire’s Bloodiest Battle? (second cohort)
• An Introduction to Roman Coins in Britain
• Prophecy, Propaganda and Portraits: How to Rule a Nation?
• The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
• Medieval and Elizabethan Worldviews

History of Art

• German Art in Twenty Works (Third Cohort)
• The Weight of Images and Words: Social Realism
• Modern Art in 100 Works (1900-2017) (Fully Booked)
• Villa Malfitano and the Whitaker Collections, Palermo
• German Art in Twenty Works (Second Cohort)
• The Renaissance in Art
• The Painting of Giovanni Bellini
• Revolutionary Opulence: Russia’s Art Expression in the Eighteenth Century
• Damascus (Syria): A Tribute to the ‘City of Jasmine’

Literature

• Six Poems for Comfort (Second cohort)
• A Day with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
• A Day with Hans Christian Andersen
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• An Introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites
• A Day with William Blake

Music

• Schubert’s Settings of Mayrhofer
• The String Quartet

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• Christianity in a World Come of Age: The Life and Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Exploring Human Values: Human Being Between Fact and Fiction

Science and Earth Science

• The Geology of York

Social Sciences

• Companion Animals: Exploring the Significance of Pets
• Introducing Behavioural Insights
• Valuing Health: Where Does Economics Come in?

Stage and Screen

• The Films of Federico Fellini

Summer

Professional Studies

• Globalisation: A Whistle-stop Tour

Creative Writing

• Creative Writing for the Terrified
• How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction
• Writing with News Flair

History and Heritage

• The Martyrdom of Margaret Clitherow
• Medieval York: An Archaeology of Power
• ‘Straws in the Wind?’ British Attitudes to Total War (1914-1918)
• York, King John and the Magna Carta
• St Mary’s Abbey (1088-1539)
• Life in the Workhouse
• The Origins of the Liberties of York
• York Minster: History, Art and Architecture
• A Day in Medieval Bruges
• Beginning your Family History
• Before the Storm: England (1910-14)

History of Art

• Casa Cuseni: Its Hosts and Famous Guests
• British Art in the 1930s
• A History of the Islamic Carpets
• Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionists and More: A Passion for Nature, Light and Colour
• The Paintings of Titian
• Paris: The Art and History of the City of Light

Literature

• The Other Wordsworth
• Death Dances: The Danse Macabre in Art History and Literature

Music

• Schubert’s Dramatic Music

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• Exploring Human Values: Human Being Between Animal and Machine

Social Sciences

• Madness and Murder: An Introduction
• Economic Essentials