A Date with History

Live History Shows presents In Time, an interactive, escape-room style, performance at York Army Museum. Channel your inner Sherlock and unravel the puzzles, decipher the clues and solve the mystery.

The stained glass of All Saints Church is one of York's hidden treasures. Join Robert Richards to find out what makes these windows so unique.

Why do we feel emotions like compassion or sympathy - and such joy in social connection? Find out how archaeological evidence helps us to reconstruct how our ‘better natures’ developed in the distant past.

What makes All Saints Church, North Street so special: its stained glass, its painted angel ceiling, the tile pavement? Join a tour with Heritage Officer Robert Richards and find out.

Learn about the history of health inequality in Britain over the past 2,000 years and discover if we can do better in the future.

Live History Shows presents In Time, an interactive, escape-room style, performance at York Army Museum. Channel your inner Sherlock and unravel the puzzles, decipher the clues and solve the mystery.

The stained glass of All Saints Church is one of York's hidden treasures. Join Robert Richards to find out what makes these windows so unique.

Discover how archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share new understanding of Neanderthals.

What makes All Saints Church, North Street so special: its stained glass, its painted angel ceiling, the tile pavement? Join a tour with Heritage Officer Robert Richards and find out.

Archaeologist Barry Crump reveals the many meanings and uses of York’s iconic medieval city walls.

Dogs and humans: in the last 200 years no inter-species relationship has developed so fast nor come so far. Author Simon Garfield examines the history of this unique bond.

Join author Robert Penn for a tale of rediscovery and a celebration of the everyday miracle of homemade bread.

The stained glass of All Saints Church is one of York's hidden treasures. Join Robert Richards to find out what makes these windows so unique.

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, author Anthony Barrett explores the history of Rome’s Great Fire and explains how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire.

Author Daniel Lee reveals how a surprise discovery of personal documents concealed in an armchair for 70 years led to a gripping investigation into the life of a SS Officer during World War Two.

What makes All Saints Church, North Street so special: its stained glass, its painted angel ceiling, the tile pavement? Join a tour with Heritage Officer Robert Richards and find out.

Chance Memory is a much-loved poem of the Great War by Philip Johnson. But who was Johnson and what was his connection to York? Join Sue Mendus of the University of York to find out.

Using the latest scientific techniques and findings, archaeologists Dawn Hadley and Julian D Richards unravel the movements of the Viking Great Army across England.

For 400 years the potter’s wheel remained the cornerstone of pottery production in Roman Britain, before all but disappearing at the end of Roman rule. Ancient pottery technologist Graham Taylor examines why.

Join Robert Pecksmith and Lauren Stokeld, the creators of an historical mystery prototype game, The Death of Walahfrid, and explore how we can make the past playable.

What role do the senses play in the experience of pilgrimage and sacred places? How can 3D visualisations bring medieval pilgrim experience to life? Join Dee Dyas of the University of York.

Find out about the discovery of a great Anglo-Saxon treasure, the research project that pieced its hundreds of gold and silver objects back together, and how they have transformed understanding of the warrior society of the day.

The stained glass of All Saints Church is one of York's hidden treasures. Join Robert Richards to find out what makes these windows so unique.

What makes All Saints Church, North Street so special: its stained glass, its painted angel ceiling, the tile pavement? Join a tour with Heritage Officer Robert Richards and find out.

From the ‘French Ripper’, Joseph Vacher, to H. H. Holmes and his ‘Murder Castle’, crime expert Drew Gray re-examines the most captivating and intriguing homicides of the 19th century.

Award-winning journalist Philip Stephens of the Financial Times paints a fascinating portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile its waning power with past glory.

The story of one of York’s most famous families - the Rowntrees - is best told through their newly catalogued archives. Join our speakers to learn more about the archives’ potential.

The stained glass of All Saints Church is one of York's hidden treasures. Join Robert Richards to find out what makes these windows so unique.

What makes All Saints Church, North Street so special: its stained glass, its painted angel ceiling, the tile pavement? Join a tour with Heritage Officer Robert Richards and find out.

Historian Peter Furtado explores how people around the globe have suffered and survived during plague and pandemic, from the ancient world to the present.

Discover how the Polonsky Foundation, which provides support for digitising ancient texts deposited in the world’s most eminent libraries, seeks to 'democratise access to manuscripts and scholarship generally'.

Discover how churches took centre stage in the hey-day of railway advertising before the Second World War.

Join Jennifer Allison of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust to discover the history of tattooing policy and culture in the British Army.

Take a fresh look at the Franco-Prussian War with our international panel of historians.

Join Greg Jenner, historical consultant to the award-winning TV comedy series Horrible Histories, and learn how he brings history to life through pop culture.

Historian Christina Riggs explores how the world re-discovered Tutankhamun in the 1960s and ‘70s, turning an icon into an industry.

Join Egyptologist Chris Naunton for a gorgeous presentation of intimate diaries and journals that capture the excitement of the golden age of Nile exploration.

Faced with creeping authoritarianism, a new agenda for liberalism is needed. Historian and Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash explores the future of liberalism in a post-Covid world.

Have you been inspired to mend a broken clock by the BBC series The Repair Shop? Well here’s your chance to learn how with conservator Matthew Read.

Author Robert Tombs reveals how the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable - though not made historically inevitable – because of Britain's historical experience and deeper ties outside Europe.

Jung Chang, the best-selling author of Wild Swans, reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape 20th-century China.

Award-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain reconstructs the killing of an RUC officer in Northern Ireland in 1978, offering a unique perspective on the Troubles.

Discover how 3D visualisations are opening up new ways of experiencing pilgrimage, including the shedding of new light on Thomas Becket and the cult site of Canterbury.

Acclaimed historian, writer and broadcaster William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before.