Classroom-based Saturday Classes
Creative Writing
Autumn term
- Saturday 30 November 2024: An Introduction to Visual Poetry I: Collage Poems - with Rebecca Drake BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
Spring term
- Saturday 08 February 2025: A Workout for 'Would-Be' Writers - with Sue Cooper MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 29 March 2025: An Introduction to Visual Poetry II: Water Poems - with Rebecca Drake BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
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
Autumn term
- Saturday 07 December 2024: Munch and the Fjords - with Elena Kashina MPhil MPhil PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
Spring term
- Saturday 15 March 2025: Sandro Botticelli - with Elena Kashina MPhil MPhil PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
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
Autumn term
- Saturday 16 November 2024: Greek Drama - Oedipus and More - with Gillian Hovell BA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 16 November 2024: The Origins of the Liberties of York - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 23 November 2024: Emma of Normandy (d.1052), Queen of England - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 30 November 2024: Identifying Animal Bones: An Introduction - with Clare Rainsford MA MSc PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 30 November 2024: Robert Aske and the Pilgrimage of Grace - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 07 December 2024: When was the Protestant Reformation in Tudor England? - with Joseph Oakley MA PGCE (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 07 December 2024: The Medici: Bankers, Rulers and Patrons of the Arts - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
Spring term
- Saturday 01 February 2025: History of the King's Manor - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 08 February 2025: Exploring the Archaeology of Ancient EgyptExploring the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt - with Gillian Hovell BA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 08 February 2025: The Percy Family in the Middle Ages - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 15 February 2025: August 1920: The Battle of Warsaw and the Salvation of Europe - with Joseph Oakley MA PGCE (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 15 February 2025: Isabella of France: The She Wolf? - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 22 February 2025: Introduction to Local History - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 22 February 2025: Bede the Scientist - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 01 March 2025: Bodies, Busks and Baleen: An Exploration of Corsetry from the Early Modern Period to the Early Twentieth Century - with M Faye Prior BA MA PhD AMA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 01 March 2025: Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 01 March 2025: Coins in Roman Britain - with Barry Crump BA MSc MRes (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 08 March 2025: Society in Early Modern England - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 08 March 2025: Medieval Religious Architecture from Byzantine to Gothic - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 15 March 2025: Were Tudor People like Us? Some Thoughts on English Society (1485-1603) - with Joseph Oakley MA PGCE (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 22 March 2025: The clue is (not always) in the name: a tour of nearly-vanished York - with Emily Hansen PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 22 March 2025: The House of Wessex: From Legendary Cerdic to Æthelred the Unready - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 29 March 2025: Historic Pubs of York - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 29 March 2025: Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, Princess of Wales - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
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 03 May 2025: English Civil Wars and Revolution - with Joe Saunders MA MPhil (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57), The King’s Manor
- 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 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
Autumn term
- Saturday 16 November 2024: TS Eliot’s Four Quartets - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
Spring term
- Saturday 22 February 2025: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 08 March 2025: A Day with Shakespeare’s Sonnets - with Stephen Grace BA MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
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
Philosophy/Religion
Autumn term
- Saturday 23 November 2024: The History of the Bible: Text, Transmission, and Translation - with Robyn Stewart BA MSc (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
Spring term
- Saturday 01 February 2025: Beyond God: New Approaches in Philosophy and Theology - with Daniel Gustafsson PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £57)
- Saturday 22 March 2025: Philosophy of Fiction - with Jacob O’Sullivan MA (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
Science and Earth Science
Spring term
- Saturday 01 February 2025: Fossils: An Introduction - with Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
- Saturday 22 February 2025: Palaeoenvironments: An Introduction - with Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30)
Social Sciences
Spring term
- Saturday 15 February 2025: Madness and Murder - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30), The King’s Manor
- Saturday 15 March 2025: Mental Health, Mental Ill-Health and Mental-Healthism - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD (10am-1pm, 1 week, £30), 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.