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Saturday Courses

These courses will all be delivered via Zoom.

Students joining our online courses would need access to a computer, laptop or tablet with a microphone (essential) and a webcam (desirable) as well as a reliable broadband connection.

For more information on the courses, please click on the links provided, which will take you to the online store so you can register for the course. 

Please note that Saturday classes will not be recorded.

Prices: £25 = 1 half day £47 = 2 part course, over two consecutive Saturdays

Creative Writing

Autumn

• Saturday 30 October: Beginning to Write - with Sue Cooper MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 06 November: A Beginner’s Guide to Reading Contemporary Poetry - with Wendy Pratt BSc BA MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 20 November: Ten Objects in Your Bathroom (or anywhere!) - with Sue Cooper MA (10am-1pm, £25).

Spring

• Saturday 05 and 12 February: Imagining Stories: Strategies for Developing Story Ideas - with Sue Cooper MA (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 12 February: Becoming a Published Fiction Author - with Prof Stuart Billingham BA MSc PhD CertEd (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 12 March: Playing With Words - with Sue Cooper MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 March: Just for Laughs: Writing Comedy - with Helen Kenwright BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).

History and Heritage

Autumn

• Saturday 23 October: Medieval English Drama before the Mystery Plays - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 23 October: The Arms’ Keepers: The Medieval Heralds - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 23 October: Hoaxes and Headlines: A History of Fake News - with Alice Bennett BA MA Mphil MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 30 October: History Mysteries: Who is Buried in Sutton Hoo? - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 30 October and 06 November: Parks and Gardens in Medieval and Tudor England - with John Lee BA MA PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• *NEW*Saturday 30 and 06 November: An Ancient Mediterranean Tour: The Civilisations of the Ancient Mediterranean (second cohort) - with Gillian Hovell BA ‘The Muddy Archaeologist’ (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 06 November: Heraldry: Emblazoning the Kingdom - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 06 November: The Medieval Mystery Plays in York - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 06 November: Beasts of Ebor: A History of Animals in York - with Clare Rainsford MA MSc PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 13 and 20 November: Classical Sculpture: Beauty and Power - with Gillian Hovell BA ‘The Muddy Archaeologist’ (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 13 November: The Truth About Life in Medieval York - with Barry Crump BA BSc MRes (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 13 November: York, King John and the Magna Carta - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• *NEW* Saturday 13 November: Conquest, Harrying and a Survey: How the Normans became the owners of all the land in England (3rd) - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 20 November: The Home Front Household - with Alice Bennett BA MA MPhil MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 20 November: The Medieval Illuminated Manuscript - with Jessica Lamothe PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• *NEW* Saturday 20 November: Conquest, Harrying and a Survey: How the Normans became the owners of all the land in England (second cohort) - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 27 November: St William of York: Life and Miracles - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 27 November: Conquest, Harrying and a Survey: How the Normans became the owners of all the land in England - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 27 November: Elizabeth I and the Cult of Gloriana - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• *NEW* Saturday 27 November and 04 December: Reading English Handwriting (1500-1700) - with Jessica Lamothe PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 04 December: Anyone for Tea? - with Alice Bennett BA MA MPhil MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 04 December: Clarifying the Commonwealth: Who, What, and Why - with Emily Hansen PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 11 December: The St William Window at York Minster: Art and Iconography - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 11 December: What is the Domesday Book? - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 11 December: Chaucer's Visits to York - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).

 Spring

• Saturday 29 January: Did Shakespeare Visit York? - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 29 January and 05 February: Using Maps for Local and Family History - with John Lee BA MA PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 05 February: The Late Medieval Guilds of York - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 05 February: The History of the Great East Window, York Minster - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 05 and 12 February: Roman Satire: Nothing New under the Sun - with Gillian Hovell BA ‘The Muddy Archaeologist’ (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 12 February: Does Richard I Deserve the Name Lionheart? - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 12 February: Introduction to Heritage Conservation - with Tracy Wilcockson BA MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 February: England in the Age of Chivalry - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 February: Forewarned is Forearmed: The Role of the ROC in Civil Nuclear Defence - with Kate Morris BA MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 February: Pets and Pests: The Archaeology of our Closest Companions - with Clare Rainsford MA MSc PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 February: All Saints North Street's Stained Glass - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 February: History of Venice: From Lagoon Refugees to Rules of the Mediterranean - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 05 March: John of Gaunt and Kathryn Synford: A Medieval Love Affair - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 05 and 12 March: Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’: Epic Insight into Augustan Rome - with Gillian Hovell BA ‘The Muddy Archaeologist’ (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 12 March: Romanisation? Coinage, Economy and Identity in Roman Britain - with Barry Crump BA BSc MRes (10am-4.30pm, £47).
• Saturday 19 March: The Art and Architecture of Venice - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 March: The Great East Window, York Minster: Art and Iconography - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 March: History Myths: Did King Cnut try to Stop the Tides - with Gillian Waters MA PGDip PGCE (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 March: Take it as Read: The Social History of Reading in Britain - with Alice Bennett BA MA MPhil MA (10am-1pm, £25).

History of Art

Autumn

• Saturday 30 October and 06 November: Cordoba, Seville and Granada: A Short history of Islamic Art and Architecture in Spain - with Roberta Marin MA (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 13 November: Picturing Pasts - with Marianne M Gilchrist MA PhD FSA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 20 November: Picturing the French Revolution - with Marianne M Gilchrist MA PhD FSA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 27 November and 04 December: The Paintings of Giotto - with Peter Finch-Sieg PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 04 December: The Vision of Stanley Spencer - with Tom Bromwell BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 11 December: Rubens as Collector - with Elena Kashina MPhil MPhil PhD (2-5pm, £25).

 Spring

• Saturday 29 January and 05 February: The Paintings of Giotto (spring term) - with Peter Finch-Sieg PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 29 January and 05 February: Art History in 100 Paintings (c.20,000BC to 1900) - with Fiona Fitzgerald BA MA PGCE (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 05 February: St Basil’s Cathedral: Articulating Tsardom - with Elena Kashina MPhil MPhil PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 February: Pre-Raphaelitism: The Brotherhood and Beyond - with Karen Brett BA MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 and 26 March: From Tunisia to Egypt: early Islamic Art in North Africa - with Roberta Marin MA (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 26 March: Cameras and Human Rights: A Love-Hate Relationship - with Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani MA PhD (10am-1pm, £25).

Literature

Autumn

• Saturday 23 and 30 October: The Poetry of the North-East - with Stephen Grace PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 13 November: An Excursion through TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 27 November and 04 December: Richard Wilbur and American Formalist Poetry - with Daniel Gustafsson BA MA PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 11 December: A Day with William Blake - with Maddy Potter PhD (10am-1pm, £25).

 Spring

• Saturday 26 February: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 05 and 12 March: A Tour of British Landscape through Poetry - with Maddy Potter PhD (2pm-5.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 12 March: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 and 26 March: A Day with Lyrical Ballads - with Stephen Grace PhD (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).

Music, Stage and Screen

Autumn

• Saturday 04 December: Strange Fruit: Women Pioneers of Jazz - with Martin Fletcher PhD FHEA (10am-1pm, £25).

 Spring

• Saturday 26 February: Across the Great Divide: The Canadian Songsmiths - with Martin Fletcher PhD FHEA (10am-1pm, £25).

Science and Earth Science

Autumn

• Saturday 09 October: Understanding Geological Maps - with Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 20 November: A Geological History of Yorkshire - with Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD (2-5pm, £25).

 Spring

• Saturday 19 February: Exploring the Landscape of York - with Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 March: Geology of the Yorkshire Dales - with Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD (2-5pm, £25).

Social Sciences

Autumn

• Saturday 13 November: Mental-Healthism: Do we worry too much about our mental health? - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD (10am-1pm, £25).

 Spring

•  Saturday 12 February: Insane Society and Mental Health - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 19 February: Solidarity, Strikes and Services: Trade Unions from 1800 to Present - with Mickey Conn BSc MA MRes (2-5pm, £25).
• Saturday 05 and 12 March: From Potholes to War Crimes: A Journey through Global Law and Society - with Rhiannon Griffiths BA LLM MA and Carl Makin LLB MA DipEngLaw (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £47).
• Saturday 19 March: Exploring Visions for Constitutional Reform in the UK - with Adam Koper BA MA (10am-1pm, £25).
• Saturday 26 March: Madness: Insane Psychiatrists and Asylums - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD (10am-1pm, £25).

Learning via Zoom

• Students joining our online courses would need access to a computer, laptop or tablet with a microphone (essential) and a webcam (desirable) as well as a reliable broadband connection.
• For more guidance on joining a session via Zoom - please use our Zoom Guide for CLL Students (PDF , 208kb).