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Upcoming courses and events

The Centre for Lifelong Learning runs a wide programme of courses and events throughout the year. Please see below for a full list of our upcoming accredited, non-accredited and Saturday courses, as well as our free lectures.

Coming Soon!

Tue
22
Apr

Art for Art’s Sake: The Rise of Impressionism in France (c.1850-1880)

A 10 week online history of art course

Tue
22
Apr

A History of Christianity: From the Apostolic Era to the Reformation

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Tue
22
Apr

Painting Nature, Light and Colour: Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionists and more

A 10 week online history of art course

Tue
22
Apr

The Writer's Toolkit: Creative Writing Practice and Techniques

An online 11 week accredited creative writing module

Tue
22
Apr

The Medieval English House: Hearth and Home (c.1150-c.1500)

An online 11 week accredited history and heritage module

Tue
22
Apr

Introduction to Personality Psychology

An 11 week accredited social sciences module (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Tue
22
Apr

Manuscript Illumination in the Middle Ages: Concealing and Revealing

A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Tue
22
Apr

The Lost Country Houses of the East Riding

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Tue
22
Apr

Existentialism

An 8 week online philosophy course

Wed
23
Apr

China and Western Imperialism to 1949

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Wed
23
Apr

Brocades and Cloths of Gold: Medieval Textiles and Fashion

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Wed
23
Apr

Science at the Edge of Reality

A 5 week online philosophy course

Wed
23
Apr

The Hanoverians (1714-1837)

An online 11 week accredited history and heritage module

Wed
23
Apr

An Introduction to Criminology

An online 11 week accredited social sciences module

Wed
23
Apr

Writing Ecopoetry

A 10 week online creative writing course

Wed
23
Apr

Women Artists in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Wed
23
Apr

The Italian Renaissance

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Wed
23
Apr

On the Detective Trail in Ancient Rome

A 10 week online literature course

Wed
23
Apr

Philosophy of Art

An 8 week online philosophy course

Wed
23
Apr

An Introduction to Modern Physics

A 10 week science and earth science course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Thu
24
Apr

Early Netherlandish Painting: Campin, Eyck and van der Weyden

A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Thu
24
Apr

The Age of the Normans

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Thu
24
Apr

The Archaeology of York's Historic Buildings

An 11 week accredited archaeology module (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Thu
24
Apr

The Gothic Cathedral

An online 11 week accredited history of art module

Thu
24
Apr

The Copy

A 10 week online history of art course

Thu
24
Apr

The Welsh Wars of Independence

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Thu
24
Apr

Slow Fashion: Histories of Clothing in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Thu
24
Apr

Could the Holocaust have been prevented?

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Thu
24
Apr

Suleiman, the Magnificent: The Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Thu
24
Apr

Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: From Augustine to Aquinas

An 8 week philosophy course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Fri
25
Apr

What is Knowledge?

A 4 week online philosophy course

Sat
26
Apr

Writing Short Stories

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
26
Apr

Oliver Cromwell: God’s Englishman and ‘Chief of Men’ or a Tyrant and ‘a Brave Bad Man’?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
26
Apr

A Day at Briggflatts

A full-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Mon
28
Apr

At the Source of the Image: Prehistoric Art in Europe

An 8 week online history and heritage course

Mon
28
Apr

The Life and Works of Tennyson

An 8 week online literature course

Sat
3
May

Abelard and Heloise: Vessels of Misery, Vessels of Glory

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
3
May

English Civil Wars and Revolution

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
3
May

The Lady Vanishes: Rediscovering Gladys Mitchell’s Early Detective Fiction

A 2 week online literature course

Sat
3
May

Nikolai Astrup: from Norway with Love

A half-day history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
10
May

The Printing Revolution

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
10
May

A History of Animals in York

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
10
May

Who Was Lady Godiva?

A half-day online history and heritage course

Sat
17
May

The Art of the Book in the Islamic World

A 2 week online history of art course

Sat
17
May

The History of Barley Hall, York

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
17
May

Introduction to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

A half-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
24
May

Katherine Howard: 'Juvenile Delinquent' or Victim?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
24
May

'Murder by the Throat': The Black and Tans and the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21)

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
24
May

Representations of the 'girl' in Children’s Books

A half-day online literature course

Sat
31
May

Introduction to Vorticism

A half-day online history of art course

Sat
31
May

York’s Medieval City Walls

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
31
May

Philosophy of Depression

A 2 week online philosophy course

Sat
7
Jun

Arab and Norman Art in Palermo

A 2 week online history of art course

Sat
7
Jun

‘Dead Men Do Tell Tales’: An Introduction to Osteoarchaeology

A full-day archaeology course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
7
Jun

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, The Last Lancastrian Queen?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
7
Jun

‘Dead Men Do Tell Tales’: An Introduction to Osteoarchaeology

A full-day archaeology course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
7
Jun

Historic Pubs of York (second cohort)

A half-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
14
Jun

Beginning your Family History

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
14
Jun

The Cistercian Order in England

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
14
Jun

Medieval Alliterative Poetry: The Vision of Piers Plowman

A half-day online literature course

Sat
21
Jun

Polish Nationalism, Solidarity and the Fall of the Communist Bloc (1980- 1991)

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
21
Jun

Thomas Cromwell: A Ruthless ‘Agent of Satan’ or Faithful Servant?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
21
Jun

An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders: Warriors, Poets, and Sorceresses

A full-day literature course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
28
Jun

An Introduction to Visual Poetry III: Print Poems

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Sat
28
Jun

Songs of Travel

A half-day online creative writing course

Sat
28
Jun

An Introduction to the Northern Renaissance: Art in the Age of Jan van Eyck

A full-day history of art course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Sat
28
Jun

Birds in Archaeology

A half-day online history and heritage course

Sat
28
Jun

Exploring the Domesday Book

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)