Upcoming Events

SpeedQuizzing at The Black Bull

The Black Bull, Hull Road, York, YO10 3LF

8:30 PM

Hosted by Steve Quizzing | Starts 8.

Self-led Georgian Festival Tour

The Bar Convent Heritage Centre, 17 Blossom Street, York, YO24 1AQ

10:00 AM

Play In A Week – Grimm’s Fairy Tales (5-7s)

The Studio, York Theatre Royal

10:00 AM

Join us to enter and play in the madcap world of Grimms’ Fairy Tales.

Play In A Week – Grimm’s Fairy Tales (5-7s)

The Studio, York Theatre Royal

10:30 AM

Join us to enter and play in the madcap world of Grimms’ Fairy Tales.

Blackmail and Scandal at the heart of the Court

York, check event listing for details

11:00 AM

York Georgian Festivalregular Mary Lister is back this year with another illustrated talk, this time about blackmail and scandals at the heart of the Court.

Blackmail and scandal at the heart of the Court

York Mansion House, St Helen's Square, York, YO1 9QL

11:00 AM

LGBTQ+ Book Group

Upper Foyer, York Theatre Royal

12:00 PM

Are you passionate about literature that celebrates and explores the LGBTQ+ community? Are you looking for a safe and welcoming space to discuss thought-provoking books while connecting with like-minded individuals? Look no further! We are thrille...

Shoes and the Georgian Man

York Mansion House, St Helen's Square, York, YO1 9QL

1:30 PM

Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning.

Play In A Week – The Tempest (8-11s)

The Studio, York Theatre Royal

2:00 PM

In this fun-filled play in a week, we will be exploring the magical world of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest , set on the most enchanting of islands, where nothing is as it seems and revenge is being plotted! The week culminates in a performance...

Sancho and Sterne: A Meeting of Minds in Georgian Britain

York Mansion House, St Helen's Square, York, YO1 9QL

3:30 PM

Join us for the launch of a new student-led critical edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho and Laurence Sterne.

The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition and Environmental Writing

York, check event listing for details

5:30 PM

How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "dread perversion" of nature? Join Brycchan Carey, author ofThe Unnatural Trade - Slavery, Abolition, and Environme...

The Unnatural Trade

York Mansion House, St Helen's Square, York, YO1 9QL

5:30 PM

How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "dread perversion" of nature?Join Brycchan Carey, author ofThe Unnatural Trade - Slavery, Abolition, and Environme...