Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT
OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS

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Wed, Mar 29

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Georgian Architecture and the language of Classicism in Bath

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Sat, Apr 1

Featured Sat 1 April 10:00 am - Sat 7 October 4:00 pm BST

Riches of the Earth: the beauty of minerals

Sat, Apr 1

Queen Square: talks & walking trail

Featured 10:30 am - 4:30 pm

Nelson, Bath and the battle of Copenhagen

Mon, Apr 3

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Your Military History Museum Needs You!

Get Tickets £2.00 – £5.00

Tue, Apr 4

Bath Nats: Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Our Changing Bird Population: a Birder’s Log Book

Tue, Apr 4

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An exploration of utilitarianism & consequentialism

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Wed, Apr 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Georgian Town Planning – Bath & the druid connection

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Sat, Apr 8

Queen Square

Featured 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cercle francais – Histoire du vignoble bordelais

Tue, Apr 11

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bath Abbey: Reducing the Carbon Footprint!

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Wed, Apr 12

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Was Whistler a Dandy?

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Fri, Apr 14

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Supermassive Black Holes

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Sat, Apr 15

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Victorian Literature Discussion Group: Vanity Fair

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Sat, Apr 15

Queen Square

Featured 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Jane Austen: Tensions at the Table – Dining room dynamics in abbeys & castles

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Tue, Apr 18

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Democracy erodes from the top – the challenge of populism in Europe

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Wed, Apr 19

Hybrid Event

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Get Tickets Free – £4.00

Wed, Apr 19

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Bath Hot Springs – Science, Source & Protection

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Thu, Apr 20

Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Historical Association – everyday life & accidental death in tudor somerset

Sat, Apr 22

Avon Gardens Trust

Featured 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Ornamental Wilderness in the English Garden

Mon, Apr 24

Hybrid Event

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

The Publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623

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Wed, Apr 26

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Eighteenth century social ambition

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Thu, Apr 27

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Autism: Seeking predictability in an uncertain world

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Fri, Apr 28

External group: Hybrid

Featured 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

In the shadow of the magnolia tree

Tue, May 2

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Reflections on reality: Raymond Tallis

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Wed, May 3

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The landscape of Bath

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Thu, May 4

External group: Hybrid

Featured 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Plant knowledge depicted

Fri, May 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The quest for cosmic dawn: First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope

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Wed, May 10

Hybrid Event

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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Wed, May 10

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Dreaming the Land at the Sidney Nolan Trust

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Tue, May 16

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Living with intelligent machines

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Mon, May 22

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Command: how the Allies learned to win the Second World War

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Thu, Jun 1

External group: Hybrid

Featured 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Bath’s Pleasure Gardens

Wed, Jun 21

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Get Tickets Free – £5.00

Mon, Jun 26

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Roman Special Forces and Special Ops

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Wed, Jul 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Stench! Air Foul and Fair through Bath’s History

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Thu, Jul 6

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Radical by Nature: Celebrating Alfred Russel Wallace at 200

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Fri, Jul 7

BRLSI Members’ event

Featured 10:30 am - 5:00 pm

Members’ event: Day trip to Rugbourne Farm, home of William Smith

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Fri, Sep 8

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Man-made light pollution: its effects and how to tackle it

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Fri, Oct 13

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Astrophysics of Earth: light-life interactions beyond photosynthesis

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Fri, Nov 3

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A cluttered and noisy sky? The challenge of satellite constellations

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Fri, Dec 1

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Space debris: hazards

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Tue, Dec 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Philosophy & Life: A C Grayling

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