Autumn Term

Autumn Term Courses

Creative Writing

• A Writer's Workout: Part One - 26 October 2019
• Brief History: Poetry and Transformation - 2 November 2019
• Inside Out and Upside Down Day - 9 November 2019
• Make Your Reader Worry and Wonder - 16 November 2019
• ‘Who’s Talking?’ Writing Realistic Dialogue - 23 November 2019
• Writing the Novel: Action, Plot and Structure - 30 November 2019
• Writing Poetry with the Poet-Critics - 7 December 2019
• Rhyme, Rhythm and Syllabics - 14 December 2019

History and Heritage

• Identifying Animal Bones: An Introduction - 12 October 2019
• The Truth about Life in Medieval York - 12 October 2019
• 'The Year of Miracles': 1759 and the Founding of the British - 12 October 2019
• Markets and Fairs Over Eight Centuries - 26 October 2019
• The British and French Campaigns in Egypt and Syria (1798-1801) - 26 October 2019
• Who was King Harold? - 26 October 2019
• History Mysteries: The Death of Richard II - 2 November 2019
• Sainte-Chapelle: The Making of France - 2 November 2019
• History of Grays Court: The Oldest Inhabited House in York - 9 November 2019
• September 1939: A Not Unexpected War? - 9 November 2019
• People and Place Names (second cohort) - 9 November 2019
• People and Place Names - 16 November 2019
• Troy and the Mycenaean World - 16 November 2019
• ‘Art in Little’ at the Tudor Court - 23 November 2019
• The Mysteries of Mother Shipton and her Links to York - 23 November 2019
• Troy and the Mycenaean World (second cohort) - 23 November 2019
• Simon de Montfort and the Origins of Parliament - 30 November 2019
• Working on the Line: the Life and Times of York's Early Railway Families - 30 November 2019
• A Mad World: An Introduction to the Cultural History of Madness and Mental Health in Britain - 7 December 2019
• 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!' The Berlin Wall Falls - 7 December 2019
• The Story and Characters in the Bayeux Tapestry - 14 December 2019
• 'Purloined by Travelling Antiquaries' and other Peculiar Tales of Medieval Pavements - 14 December 2019

History of Art

• Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture - 5 October 2019
• 'Dust, Worms and Vile Flesh': The Art of Death in Medieval England - 26 October 2019
• The Louvre Museum, or ‘Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?’ - 2 November 2019
• Marvellous Monsters and Where to Find Them - 9 November 2019
• Art History in 100 Paintings (c.20,000BC to 1900) - 16 November 2019
• Italian-Turkish Architectural Encounters in Late-Ottoman Istanbul - 23 November 2019
• Painting in Paris - 30 November 2019
• The Art of Early Medieval York - 7 December 2019

Literature

• William Wordsworth - 26 October 2019
• Writing the Peterloo Massacre - 2 November 2019
• A Day with Robert Frost - 9 November 2019
• An Excursion through TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - 23 November 2019
• Poems for a Winter Evening - 30 November 2019
• 'Two Wolves in the Wood': Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - 7 December 2019
• The Magic and Mystery of Christmas - 14 December 2019

Music

• From Bowler Hats to Circular Breathing: The Evolution of British Jazz - 26 October 2019
• Nationalism in Late Nineteenth Century Viennese Musical Life - 16 November 2019
• Stories in Sound: The Role of Music in Film - 23 November 2019
• Hark the Herald Angels Sing: The Development of Christmas Carols - 14 December 2019

Religion, Culture and Philosopy

• Our Mother, Who Art in Heaven: Feminist Theologies and Finding the Feminine Divine - 2 November 2019
• ‘And she laid him in a manger': The Christian Nativity Narratives - 16 November 2019
• An Introduction to Infinity - 7 December 2019

Social Sciences

• A Morning with Mindfulness: Bringing Awareness to Everyday Life - 26 October 2019
• People’s Votes? Political Engagement from Elections to Demonstrations - 9 November 2019
• An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Lucid Dreaming - 30 November 2019

Spring Term

Spring Term Courses

Creative Writing 

• Writing a Novel: Look Who’s Talking! - 1 February 2020
• Writing the Stranger and the Self - 8 February 2020
• Writing Poems about Paintings - 15 February 2020
• Read Like a Writer - 22 February 2020
• Writing a Novel: World Building and Setting - 29 February 2020
• Understanding Picture Books - 7 March 2020
• Next Week On... Writing Collections, Sequels and Serialised Fiction - 14 March 2020
• Novel Questions - 21 March 2020

History and Heritage

• Medieval Merchants - 25 January 2020
• A Brief Introduction to the Medieval Parish Church - 25 January 2020
• An Unquiet Peace: Europe (1918-23) - 25 January 2020
• Medieval Festivals and Holidays - 1 February 2020
• The Enlightenment: A Crash Course - 1 February 2020
• History Mysteries: Who was Jack the Ripper? - 8 February 2020
• The Archaeology of Roman Britain - 8 February 2020
• Who was William the Conqueror? - 15 February 2020
• 'Murder by the Throat': The Black and Tans and the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21) - 15 February 2020
• A Brief History of the Library - 22 February 2020
• Yorkshire and the Industrial Revolution - 22 February 2020
• The Conservation and Care of Historic Stained Glass - 22 February 2020
• Inside the Museum - 29 February 2020
• Medieval York: An Archaeology of Power - 29 February 2020
• The Complete Pompeii: Digging Deeper - 29 February 2020
• History of Spain: From Roman Hispania to the Caliphate of Cordoba - 7 March 2020
• Strathclyde: The Last Kingdom of the Britons - 7 March 2020
• The Medieval Colour Palette - 7 March 2020
• York's Churches and Chapels - 14 March 2020
• 29 October 1929: The Great Crash and its Consequences - 14 March 2020
• Building the Mansion House - 21 March 2020
• The Industrial Revolution: A Crash Course - 21 March 2020
• The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain - 28 March 2020
• The Gothic Cathedral in France and England - 28 March 2020

History of Art

• Painting Women in Nineteenth Century France - 25 January 2020
• British Art in the 1950s - 1 February 2020
• Mantegna and Bellini: Elan vs Serenity - 15 February 2020
• The Painting and Sculpture of Michelangelo - 29 February 2020
• Al-Qahira (The City Victorious): A Portrait of Islamic Cairo - 7 March 2020
• Discovering University Sculpture Parks: From Hepworth to Gormley - 14 March 2020
• Luminous Metaphysics: Arkhip Kuindzhi and Magical Realism - 21 March 2020

Literature

• Invisible Cities: The Literature of Italo Calvino - 25 January 2020
• Once Upon a Monster - 8 February 2020
• Psychoanalysing Dracula - 22 February 2020
• 'The Best Minds of My Generation': Beat Writers and the Rise of the Counter-Culture - 21 March 2020
• A Day with Shakespeare’s Sonnets - 28 March 2020

Music

• Gems from the Vinyl Vaults: Unsung Heroes and Heroines of Rock, Folk, Blues and Soul - 8 February 2020

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• What is Love? Lessons from Plato’s Symposium - 15 February 2020

Science and Earth Science

• An Introduction to Relativity - 14 March 2020

Social Sciences

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics! - 1 February 2020
• Madness: Insane Psychiatrists and Asylums? - 22 February 2020

Stage and Screen

• The Films of Agnès Varda - Saturdays from 7 March

Summer Term

Summer Term Courses

Creative Writing

• Where Do Ideas Come From? - 25 April 2020
• Writing a Novel: Engaging the Audience - 9 May 2020
• Writing Short Stories - 16 May 2020
• Performance Writing - 23 May 2020
• Preparing to Submit - 13 June 2020
• Writing the Wild: Nature Writing - 20 June 2020
• A Writer's Workout: Part Two - 27 June 2020

History and Heritage

• History Mysteries: Who is Buried in Sutton Hoo? - 18 April 2020
• The History of St Mary’s Abbey and the Abbot’s Manor - 25 April 2020
• How Did Britain Become Roman? - 2 May 2020
• Flashpoints and Candy Bombers: Assessing the Berlin Blockade (1948-49) - 2 May 2020
• The Conquests of Wales - 9 May 2020
• History of Spain: The Reconquest (1000-1500) - 16 May 2020
• York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate - 23 May 2020
• Building the Guild Hall - 30 May 2020
• The Winter of Discontent, Mrs Thatcher and the 1979 May Election - 30 May 2020
• ‘Wonderful Things’: Ancient Egypt - Collected, Curated and Displayed - 6 June 2020
• 'Keep This Voucher - It Is Of Value': What Was Rowntree & Co.'s Marketing Revolution? - 6 June 2020
• The History of York’s Merchants Adventurers and their Hall - 13 June 2020
• Prophecy, Propaganda and Portraits: How to Rule a Nation? - 20 June 2020
• August 1920: The Battle of Warsaw and the Salvation of Europe - 20 June 2020
• Durham Cathedral: History Set in Stone - 20 June 2020

History of Art

• Islamic Art in Italy: Venice, Florence and Urbino - 18 April 2020
• The Emergence of Modern Art - 25 April 2020
• History of Art: Developing a Worldwide View - 16 May 2020
• French Connections and the Camden Town Group - 13 June 2020

Literature

• The Wind in the Willows and the Meaning of Life - 18 April 2020
• A Day at Briggflatts - 25 April 2020
• An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill - 9 May 2020
• ‘Down these mean streets...’ - 16 May 2020
• Literary Exiles and Émigrés: James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield - 23 May 2020
• Introduction to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney - 6 June 2020
• A Day with John Donne - 13 June 2020
• Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe and the Gothic Revival - 20 June 2020

Music

• Strange Fruit: Women Pioneers of Jazz - 20 June 2020

Religion, Culture and Philosophy

• The Death of God - 9 May 2020
• A New Heaven and a New Earth: An Introduction to the Book of Revelation - 30 May 2020
• The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Search for ‘Kynde Knowinge’ - 27 June 2020

Science and Earth Science

• Current Topics in Biology: Sustainable Food - 25 April 2020
• Current Topics in Biology: Our Climate - 6 June 2020
• Current Topics in Biology: Public Health Decisions at Scale - 27 June 2020

Social Sciences

• 'Irrational Exuberance?’ Financial Manias, Crashes and Bubbles from 17th Century to the Present - 27 June 2020