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Author Frederik Cryns traces William Adams’s remarkable rise from humble English pilot to a position of immense influence in Japan’s foreign relations in the 1600s.

Discover how specialised brain training programmes can boost recovery and quality of life after heart surgery with clinical neuropsychologist Kalliopi Megari.

Take a journey into the soul of Northumbria with writer Jake Morris-Campbell as he seeks to understand the deep past and uncertain future of his homeland.

Hear the incredible story of how globally renowned motorcycle track instructor Andy Ibbott turned adversity into opportunity after suffering a life-changing stroke.

Join author Jean Strouse for the riveting story of portrait artist John Singer Sargent and his relationship with an eminent Edwardian family, the Wertheimers.

How can those in higher education work together to address the challenges of a global climate crisis? Our expert panel discusses some unique new approaches.

Find out about the development of an evidence-based mental health and wellbeing curriculum for primary schools with Joshua Stubbs, Head of Research at the PSHE Association.

Join palaeontologist and artist Mark P Witton for a stunningly illustrated talk on what we now know about the fearsome and extraordinary king of the dinosaurs.

We're living in the technological future, but is it the one we want? Join in the discussion as we explore if digital technologies are solving the right problems of the modern age.

As the epidemic of male violence towards women and young girls reaches new heights, women’s rights campaigner Jess Davies provides a toolkit to understand and tackle online misogyny.

Discover the science of why we aren’t and can’t be perfect with Laurence Hurst, an expert on evolution and genetics from the University of Bath.

Find out about how contemporary artist Lela Harris and writer Rommi Smith create new work through creative practices in connection with Jane Austen and JMW Turner.

Prepare for a rip-roaring adventure through science gone wrong with author Tim James and discover how accidental discoveries have changed humanity for the better.

Find out how ancient peoples dealt with death as classicist Robert Garland explores the beliefs and practices of a wide range of cultures and traditions.

Writer Anna Sulan Masing explores what it means to be East and South East Asian in Britain today and celebrates the varied experiences that make up ESEA identity.

From emojis to like Hello Kitty, philosopher Simon May explores the worldwide obsession with cuteness and what it reveals about our age.

Sociologist Mikael Klintman offers a toolkit for exposing and analysing the rhetoric that saturates our everyday lives in today's chaotic media landscape.

Join biologist Jaap de Roode of Emory University, US, to hear the astonishing story of how animals from ants to apes use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves.

To what extent does the general public tolerate abuse and harassment of MPs? Does counter-narrative messaging reduce this tolerance? Hear from expert speakers.

From medieval times to the 2008 financial crash and the present day, economist Martin Slater explores the central role and changing fortunes of the National Debt.

Learn what alien microbes living in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth’s crust can reveal about the dawn and future of our planet with biologist Karen Lloyd.

Historian Eleanor Barnett charts the ingenious ways people have sought to extend the life of food and reuse leftovers from the 16th-century kitchen to the present day.

Simon Gilbody, a leader in the field of mental health interventions, discusses a toolkit to help those experiencing long-term sickness absence back into work.

Find out how researchers study the sounds of the past with Mariana López of the University of York.

Join Jahnavi Phalkey, Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru, as she delves into the emergence of big science in 20th-century India and shares her vision for the scientific future of the country.

Writer Linda Porter presents the compelling story of the misunderstood and underestimated elder sister of Henry VIII, Margaret Tudor, whose determination to fight for the rights of her son, James V, is at the core of her dramatic life.

Warming seas, plastic pollution, overfishing. Join our panel of experts from France and the UK as they discuss the challenges our oceans face and how we can preserve them.

Discover the power of creative writing to foster connection and community for those with lived experience of mental ill health at our interactive workshop.

What was life really like aboard a pirate ship? Join historian Rebecca Simon for a rollicking account of pirates’ codes - the strict rules essential for survival at sea.

How do we solve the housing crisis? Take part in an innovative online workshop focusing on shared goals. Role-play different perspectives and explore solutions in York.

Join Emma Waring and Donna Yates of the York Maastricht Partnership as they explore some of the ethical dilemmas surrounding T-Rex fossils, controversial art and human remains in museums and galleries today.

From the 3,500-year-old Ringlemere Cup to the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard, hear about amazing treasures unearthed by detectorists, mudlarks and fieldwalkers.

Michael Guilding, a retired psychotherapist, examines fear and love from the perspective of human biology and reflects on what each of us might do to shift the balance between these powerful forces.