Of Women

Discover the impact of art as a form of protest at an event highlighting gender-based violence. Join Melissa Chacón and Harriet Gray of the University of York and Mora Fernández of La Casa Mandarina, Mexico City.

Join historian Jane Draycott as she reclaims the life story of Fulvia, one of the most powerful women of the late Roman Republic.

With a new series of Riot Women in production, BAFTA-winning creator Sally Wainwright discusses the origins of the hit BBC drama.

Join leading expert on extremism Cynthia Miller-Idriss as she reveals how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West.

Struggling with joint pain or insomnia? You aren’t alone. Drawing on personal experience, Dame Kelly Holmes shares tips on managing middle age and the menopause.

From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, join historian and best-selling author Kate Williams for an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them.

Hear readings from Voices of Resistance, a powerful collection of diaries from four Gazan women, and join in the discussion with one of the writers, the editor and local Palestinian figures.

Join writer Joanna Bourke for a critical, comparative history of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka and Tucker.

Join Nicola Sturgeon, the longest-serving First Minister of Scotland, as she reflects on her remarkable career in an era marked by Brexit, Covid and five different UK prime ministers.

Journalist Karen Bartlett offers a searing insight into the challenges of safely building a new life overseas and the captive fate of women in Afghanistan.

Enjoy spoken passages from the writings of Anne Lister and her contemporaries interwoven with live performances of music from her own collection at an intimate concert in the glorious setting of York Mansion House.