Saturday Courses
These courses will all be delivered live via Zoom.
For more information on the courses, please click on the links provided, which will take you to the event page where you will also find a link to the online store so you can register for the course.
Please note that Saturday classes will not be recorded.
Prices: £24 = 1 half day £45 = 2 part course, over two consecutive Saturdays
Saturday 23rd January
- History and Heritage: The World of Bede (second cohort) with Cristina Figueredo (2-5pm, £24)
Saturday 30th January
- History and Heritage: Ancient Roots: Ancient Gardens and the Seeds of Modern Garden Design with Gillian Hovell (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- History of Art: Art History in 100 Paintings with Fiona Fitzgerald (c.20, 000 to 1900) (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- Creative Writing: The Wild Within with Wendy Pratt (10am-1pm, £24)
- Science and Social Sciences: The Origins of the Selfie with Richard Kearns (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Medieval York through the Eyes of William Snawsell with Barry Crump (2-5pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Athelstan "First King of England" and the Conquest of the Kingdom of Jorvik with Gillian Waters (10am-1pm, £24)
Saturday 6th February
- History and Heritage: The Borgia Popes with Cristina Figueredo (10am-1pm, £24)
- Creative Writing: How to Write a Novel - Scene by Scene with Sue Cooper (10am-1pm, £24)
- History of Art: Cordoba, Seville and Granada: A Short history of Islamic Art and Architecture in Spain with Roberta Martin (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- Literature: Dylan Thomas and his World with Sue Mendus (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Alcuin of York: Master of York Minster with Cristina Figueredo (2-5pm, £24)
Saturday 13th February
- Literature: The Poetry of Hull with Stephen Grace (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- History and Heritage: William the Conqueror, the Conquest of York, and the Harrying of the North with Gillian Waters (10am-1pm, £24)
- Creative Writing: The Arcane Art of Editing: How to Take Your First Draft to Polished Piece with Helen Kenwright (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: The Pope’s Children: Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia with Cristina Figueredo (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Alcuin of York and Charlemagne with Cristina Figueredo (2-5pm, £24)
Saturday 20th February
- History and Heritage: The Benedictine Order and their Monasteries in Northern England with Cristina Figueredo (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Inside Hugo’s ‘Notre Dame’ with Marianna M Gilchrist (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- History and Heritage: Medieval London with John Lee (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Northumbria with Cristina Figueredo (2-5pm, £24)
- Science and Social Sciences: Madness: Insane Psychiatrists and Asylums with Peter Morrall (2-5pm, £24)
- Creative Writing: Voices and Silence - Mastering the Art of Purposeful Dialogue with Sue Cooper (10-1pm, £24)
Saturday 27th February
- Stage, Screen and Music: Kind of Blue: the History of Jazz with Martin Fletcher (10am-2pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Keeping up Appearances: A Brief History of Beauty with Alice Bennett (10am-1pm, £24)
- Philosophy and Religion: Aesthetics and Politics with Simon Skempton (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: The Mystery of Pope Joan with Gillian Waters (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: The Cistercians and their Yorkshire Monasteries with Cristina Figueredo (10am-1pm, £24)
- Science and Social Sciences: Jurassic Beasts of the Dinosaur Coast with Liam Herringshaw (2-5pm, £24)
- History of Art: Russian Landscape in the Long 19th Century with Elena Kashina (2-5pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: The Anglo-Saxon Church: From Whitby to the Tenth-century Reform with Cristina Figueredo (2-5pm, £24)
Saturday 6th March
- Science and Social Sciences: Clinical Psychology with Anna Horwitz (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Cicero: Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher: In His Own Words with Gillian Hovell (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- Literature: Scandinavian Poetry with Daniel Gustafsson (10am-1pm, £24)
- Creative Writing: Come Back Early: Revisiting and Revising with Penny Boxall (10-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Aegean Archaeology with Despoina Sampatakou (2-5pm, £24)
- Literature: TS Eliot’s Four Quartets with Martin Potter (2-5pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Bede the Historian (second cohort) with Cristina Figueredo (2-5pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Athelstan "First king of England" and the Conquest of the Kingdon of Jorvik (second cohort) with Gillian Waters (10am-1pm, £24)
Saturday 13th March
- History of Art: Orientalist Artists and the Islamic World with Roberta Martin (10am-1.15pm, £45)
- History of Art: The Art of Albrecht Dürer with Peter Finch-Sieg (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- Creative Writing: Keep It Short! With Phoebe Power (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Introduction to Philosophy of Education with Joshua Stubbs (10am-1pm, £24)
- Science and Social Sciences: The Physics of Stars with Thomas Shutt (2-5.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- Science and Social Sciences: Let The Bones Talk: Using Osteoarchaeology with Maria Fontanals-Coll (10am-1pm, £24)
- History and Heritage: Cartimandua, Last Queen of the Brigantes, and the Roman occupation of the North with Gillian Waters (10am-1pm, £24)
Saturday 20th March
- Science and Social Sciences: The Geology of the Yorkshire Dales with Liam Herringshaw (2-5pm, £24)
- Literature: Jorge Luis Borges, Linguistic and Ontological Fantasy with Alicia Fuentes-Calle (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- History and Heritage: George IV, York, and the Slave Trade (second cohort) with Gillian Waters (10-1pm, £24)
Saturday 27th March
- Science and Social Sciences: An Introduction to Mindfulness with Ana Buede-Fletcher (10am-1.15pm, 2 part course over 2 consecutive Saturdays, £45)
- Creative Writing: Understanding the Driving Forces of Fiction with Sue Cooper (10am-1pm, £24)
- History of Art: Art and the Female Body with Karen Brett (2-5pm, £24)
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).