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The image above is from a painting of Bob, painted by Rex Valentine in 2008, and which now hangs in the Murch Room at Queen Square.

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September 20, 2023

A CELEBRATION OF BOB DRAPER- FIRST NEWS OF THE BRLSI MEMORIAL

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September 20, 2023

ASTRONOMY SERIES: CONSERVING THE PLANET

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September 19, 2023

Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners with John Willis

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Upcoming Events

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Mon, Sep 25

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

Riches of the Earth: the beauty of minerals

Free Exhibition

Mon, Sep 25

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Nagasaki: the forgotten prisoners

John Willis

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Sep 27

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Gerie Herbert

Get Tickets Free – £4.00

Wed, Sep 27

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Why should Hamlet die? Mortality in Elizabethan writing

Duncan McGibbon

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 2

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

French Women’s Writing after May 1968

Dr Sandra Daroczi

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Oct 6

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Festival Time Forgot

Martyn Dormer & Matthew Zuckerman

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 9

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Heidegger and the question of being

Andreas Wasmuht

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

A photograph showing the effects of infrared light.

Fri, Oct 13

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Light and Life beyond Photosynthesis

Bob Fosbury

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Oct 14

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Why do we need to know Lady Audley’s Secret?

Marie-Louise Luxemburg

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 16

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Sanskrit: Past & Present

Deepali Gaskell

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Oct 17

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Story of the Disappeared

Professor Brad Evans & Chantal Meza

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Oct 18

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Zoe Morgan

Get Tickets Free – £4.00

Fri, Oct 20

Exhibition

Featured Fri 20 October 10:00 am - Wed 1 November 4:00 pm BST

Bath Textile Artists – Echoes of Bath

Mon, Oct 23

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The tennis champion who escaped the Nazis

Felice Hardy

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Oct 24

Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Unbuilt Bath: the city as it might have been

Timothy Mowl

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Fri, Nov 3

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A CLUTTERED AND NOISY SKY

Dr Robert Massey

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Mon, Nov 6

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Mrs Moreau’s Warbler: how birds got their names

Stephen Moss

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Mon, Nov 20

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Native American Flute

Dave Merrick & Clive Mills

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Nov 21

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Cyber diplomacy in a geopolitical age

Chair: Dr Laura Smith

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Dec 1

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Solutions to Space Debris

Philippe Blondel

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Dec 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Philosophy & Life

A C Grayling

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Wed, Dec 13

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Dickens & the Victorian Christmas Book

Professor Dinah Birch

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

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