Classroom-based Saturday Classes
Creative Writing
Summer term
- Saturday 26 April 2025: Writing Short Stories - with Sue Cooper MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 28 June 2025: An Introduction to Visual Poetry III: Print Poems - with Rebecca Drake BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
History of Art
Summer term
- Saturday 03 May 2025: Nikolai Astrup: from Norway with Love - with Elena Kashina MPhil MPhil PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 28 June 2025: An Introduction to the Northern Renaissance: Art in the Age of Jan van Eyck - with Marisa Michaud BA MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
History, Heritage and Archaeology
Summer term
- Saturday 26 April 2025: Oliver Cromwell: God’s Englishman and ‘Chief of Men’ or a Tyrant and ‘a Brave Bad Man’? - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 03 May 2025: Abelard and Heloise: Vessels of Misery, Vessels of Glory - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 10 May 2025: The Printing Revolution - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 10 May 2025: A History of Animals in York - with Clare Rainsford MA MSc PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 17 May 2025: The History of Barley Hall, York - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 24 May 2025: 'Murder by the Throat': The Black and Tans and the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21) - with Joseph Oakley MA PGCE (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 24 May 2025: Katherine Howard: 'Juvenile Delinquent' or Victim? - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 31 May 2025: York’s Medieval City Walls - with Barry Crump BA MSc MRes (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 07 June 2025: Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, The Last Lancastrian Queen? - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 07 June 2025: Historic Pubs of York (second cohort) - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30), The King’s Manor.
- Saturday 07 June 2025: 'Dead Men Do Tell Tales': An Introduction to Osteoarchaology - with Maria Fontanals-Coll PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), University of York Campus, Classroom-based course.
- Saturday 14 June 2025: The Cistercian Order in EnglandThe Cistercian Order in England - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 14 June 2025: Beginning your Family History - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 21 June 2025: Polish Nationalism, Solidarity & the Fall of the Communist Bloc (1980- 1991) - with Joseph Oakley MA PGCE (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 21 June 2025: Thomas Cromwell: A Ruthless ‘Agent of Satan’ or Faithful Servant? - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 28 June 2025: Exploring the Domesday Book - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
Literature
Summer term
- Saturday 26 April 2025: A Day at Briggflatts - with Stephen Grace BA MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 17 May 2025: Introduction to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 21 June 2025: An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders: Warriors, Poets, and Sorceresses - with Hannah Armstrong BA MSt (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
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.