Classroom-based Saturday Classes

Creative Writing

Summer term

Saturday 22 April 2023: Writing Poems About Loss - with Will Kemp MA MSc (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)
Saturday 27 May 2023: Introduction to Nature Writing - with Alexandra Weston LLB MA (10am-1pm, 1 week, £26)

History and Heritage

Summer term

Saturday 22 April 2023: Victoria and Albert's Visits to York - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor

Saturday 29 April 2023: Identifying Animal Bones: An Introduction - with Clare Rainsford MA MSc PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Saturday 29 April 2023: The History of Clifford's Tower and of the Castle of York - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor

Saturday 13 May 2023: Dante’s Francesca and Beatrice through the lens of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)
Saturday 13 May 2023: Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln and Salisbury - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor
Saturday 20 May 2023: Henry VII's Visits to York: A Tale of Pageants and Rebels - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor

Saturday 27 May 2023: York’s Medieval City Walls - with Barry Crump BA BSc MRes (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor

Saturday 03 June 2023: Margaret Beaufort 'My Lady the King's Mother' - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor
Saturday 03 June 2023: History Through Chinese Export Art - with Martin Fecitt BA MA PGCE (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Saturday 10 June 2023: ‘A Man Beloved by God’: Oswald, King of Northumbria - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Saturday 17 June 2023: Pottery in Archaeology - with Barry Crump BA BSc MRes (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Saturday 24 June 2023: The Mystery of Pope Joan - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £49), The King's Manor

Saturday 24 June 2023: When Seville was the Capital of the World - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

History of Art

Summer term

Saturday 10 June 2023: The Textures of Medieval Embroidery - with Tracey Davison BA MA (10am-1pm, 2 consecutive weeks, £54), The King's Manor

Literature

Summer term

Saturday 22 April 2023: A Day with Shakespeare’s Sonnets - with Stephen Grace BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Saturday 13 May 2023: Introduction to the Poetry of RS Thomas - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £26)
Saturday 03 June 2023: Exploring Queer Poetry from South Asia - with Aakanksha Singh MA (10am-1pm, 1 week, £26)
Saturday 24 June 2023: Ismat Chughtai’s The Quilt and its Queer Descendant - with Aakanksha Singh MA (10am-1pm, 1 week, £26)

Music, Stage and Screen

Summer term

Saturday 13 May 2023: Schubert’s Settings of Schiller - with Martin Dreyer BA Bmus (10am-1pm, 2 consecutive weeks, £49)
Saturday 17 June 2023: Gems from the Vinyl Vaults: Unsung Heroes and Heroines of Rock, Folk, Blues and Soul - with Martin Fletcher PhD FHEA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Philosophy/Religion

Summer term

Saturday 20 May 2023: The Death of God - with Daniel Gustafsson PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £49)

Science and Earth Science

Summer term

Saturday 10 June 2023: Asteroseismology: Dancing with the Stars - with Thomas Shutt BSc MSc (10am-1pm, 2 consecutive weeks, £49)

Social Sciences

Summer term

Saturday 29 April 2023: Mental Health and Mental-Healthism - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £26)

Subject to any change of guidance with regard to Covid restrictions, classroom-based courses will be based at the University of York campus or the King's Manor.

You must therefore be able to attend in-person - we would kindly ask all learners to respect the preferences of their fellow learners with regard to the University of York Covid-19 Community Charter.