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Events

Events
Featured

Tue, Jul 30

Local heritage

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Change & Challenge: the history of Bath’s Assembly Rooms

Dr TImothy Moore

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Jul 31

Free exhibition tour

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

RSVP Now Free

Fri, Aug 2

Free exhibition tour

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

RSVP Now Free

Wed, Aug 7

Free exhibition tour

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

RSVP Now Free

Fri, Aug 9

Free exhibition tour

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

RSVP Now Free

Wed, Aug 14

Free exhibition tour

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

RSVP Now Free

Wed, Aug 14

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

RSVP Now Free

Mon, Sep 2

Poetry

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Is Poetry some sort of Joke?!

Duncan McGibbon

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Sep 3

Philosophy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

What is the basis of ethics?

Professor Simon Blackburn

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Wed, Sep 4

Heritage

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Mr Pulteney’s Bridge: the first 250 years

Dr Michael Rowe & Paul Jackson

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Thu, Sep 5

Sustainability

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Putting climate change solutions on the supermarket shelf

Professor Christopher Chuck

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Sep 6

Astronomy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Reaching across the gulf of space: William Huggins at 200

Hugh Allen

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Sep 7

Poetry workshop

Featured 10:30 am - 1:00 pm

Fled is that music – creative workshop

Led by Sue Boyle

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Sep 7

Concert of readings

Featured 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Romantic Narratives – concert of readings & presentations

Led by Sue Boyle

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Mon, Sep 9

FREE pop-up event!

Featured 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Myra, an Elegy for an unknown lady by Dr William Oliver

Duncan McGibbon

RSVP Now Free

Tue, Sep 10

FREE pop-up event!

Featured 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

My Bath view bucket list

Charles Minty

RSVP Now Free

Wed, Sep 11

Big Read

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Erika Giffard-Moore

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Wed, Sep 11

FREE pop-up event!

Featured 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Stella Townson’s Cafe Days in Bath

BRLSI bicentenary workshop members

RSVP Now Free

Thu, Sep 12

FREE pop-up event!

Featured 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

The Shelleys & Bath

Deepali Gaskell

RSVP Now Free

Fri, Sep 13

FREE pop-up event!

Featured 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Our world in 2050

Andreas Wasmuht

RSVP Now Free

Sat, Sep 14

Jane Austen

Featured 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Dress & Diversion in Jane Austen’s Bath

Penelope Byrde Ruddock

Sold Out £4.00 – £12.00

Tue, Sep 17

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The RSPCA at 200 – past, present & future

Suzanne Norbury

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Tue, Sep 24

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

William Holburne: A life in objects

Hannah Mills

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Sep 27

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Literary, lively, learned: Farleigh Castle & Bath in 1824

Dr Mary Redmayne

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Sep 30

Music

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bluegrass: where it came from & where it’s goin’

Leon Hunt & Mike Pryor

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Oct 1

Philosophy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Global Origins of Psychology

Richard Valentine

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Oct 3

Sustainability

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Sustainable Hydrogen for net zero

Professor Tim Mays

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Oct 4

Astronomy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Professor Mike Cruise

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Oct 11

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Shelleys and Bath

Deepali Gaskell

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 21

Music

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Voices of Bob Dylan

Matthew Zuckerman

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 28

Military History

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Rome’s African emperor & his campaigns in Scotland

Dr Simon Elliott

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Nov 2

Poetry workshop

Featured 10:30 am - 1:00 pm

The Death of Orpheus – workshop

Curated & led by Sue Boyle

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Nov 2

Concert of readings

Featured 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Remembrance – concert of readings & presentations

Curated by Sue Boyle & Ann Cullis

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Mon, Nov 25

Military History

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Welsh in Afghanistan, 1839-2022

Gareth Jones

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Dec 3

Philosophy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Who Owns the Moon?

A C Grayling

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Events Calendar

News

BRLSI News, General News

8 Jul at 11:36 am

BRLSI BICENTENARY SERIES – THE ORIENTAL CLUB AT 200: PAST PRESENT FUTURE

BRLSI News

8 Jul at 9:10 am

2024 Director Nominees

BRLSI News, General News

21 Jun at 11:08 am

BRLSI’S BRILLIANT DISCOVERY WEEKEND: CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF LEARNING WITH A WEEKEND OF FAMILY FUN, SCIENCE, MUSIC AND MORE!

News and Updates