Live at Queen Square
‘The World Revealed’ Exhibition
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomPLEASE NOTE WE ARE CLOSED ON BANK HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS This free exhibition features wonderful items donated to BRLSI over the years - although the display represents only a tiny fraction of the 150,000 artefacts, specimens and books cared for in our Collection. In the days before cheap international travel, video documentaries and the...
World Revealed Exhibition tour
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomJoin us for our FREE World Revealed exhibition tour! Spaces are limited to 12 people, so please register below (click on GOING). Tours take place on Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings. See 'What's On' listings for alternative dates. This year's exhibition celebrates 200 years of BRLSI by showcasing an eclectic 'best of' the BRLSI Collections....
Phosphates: too much of a good thing?
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomPhosphates form part of our DNA and are essential for life. However, extensive mining and over-reliance on phosphates is a rapidly growing environmental problem. Phosphate-rich agricultural run-off is a special challenge on the Somerset Levels and Moors, where attempts to limit phosphate pollution are currently playing havoc with house building regulations. Yet somehow the pollution...
World Revealed Exhibition tour
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomJoin us for our FREE World Revealed exhibition tour! Spaces are limited to 12 people, so please register below (click on GOING). See 'What's On' listings for alternative dates. This year's exhibition celebrates 200 years of BRLSI by showcasing an eclectic 'best of' the BRLSI Collections. Learn more about the exhibits on show and the...
World Revealed Exhibition tour
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomJoin us for our FREE World Revealed exhibition tour! Spaces are limited to 12 people, so please register below (click on GOING). Tours take place on Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings. See 'What's On' listings for alternative dates. This year's exhibition celebrates 200 years of BRLSI by showcasing an eclectic 'best of' the BRLSI Collections....
World Revealed Exhibition tour
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomJoin us for our FREE World Revealed exhibition tour! Spaces are limited to 12 people, so please register below (click on GOING). Tours take place on Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings. See 'What's On' listings for alternative dates. This year's exhibition celebrates 200 years of BRLSI by showcasing an eclectic 'best of' the BRLSI Collections....
Forbidden Fruit – workshop
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomIllustrated readers’ and writers’ workshop exploring the themes of unrequited love and illicit desire in some famous English poems and paintings of the nineteenth century. Following our workshops on portraiture and place, we will enter the dark heart of the nineteenth century and explore poets’ and painters’ strange obsession with narratives from the dangerous underworlds...
Places of the Heart – concert of readings & presentations
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomA concert of readings and presentations inspired by place, including launch readings from participants’ recently published books. The morning workshop in April encouraged us to think about our own special places and landscapes in the company of Bath writer Andrew Able Lawrence, who has walked and written about every street in Bath. This June afternoon...
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomThis year marks the centenary of the birth of the author and socialite Truman Capote. A precocious literary stylist - most famous for Breakfast at Tiffany’s - he turned his hand to journalism in 1959. The result was In Cold Blood, published in 1966 and heralded as Capote's “non-fiction novel”, chronicling the brutal and seemingly...
Big Read: Love & Relationships in Mrs Dalloway
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomSign up for the BRLSI Big Read on Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, part of our annual celebration of Mrs Dalloway Day. Mrs Dalloway is one of the great modernist novels detailing a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-World War One England. Attitudes towards love and relationships altered...
Fled is that music – creative workshop
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomThe first three workshops in this Bicentenary series focussed on character creation, the sense of place and types of narrative which captured and held the imaginations of the audience for high Romantic painting and poetry. The fourth workshop, Fled is that Music, will celebrate the mastery of musical form which still keeps so many nineteenth...
Romantic Narratives – concert of readings & presentations
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomOur June workshop, Forbidden Fruit, explored the themes of obsession and unfulfilled desire in some high romantic English art and poetry. This afternoon concert of new writings and discussion will ask whether the incarceration of the Lady of Shalott, or the suicide of Bess the landlord's black-eyed daughter would be popular or even allowable subjects...
Dress & Diversion in Jane Austen’s Bath
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomWas Jane Austen a fashionista? In this illustrated talk, fashion historian Penelope Byrde Ruddock looks at the diversions that made the city of Bath so delightful as a spa resort and at the clothes that were worn for the social round – some of which were particular Bath fashions. It will give a context to...
The Death of Orpheus – workshop
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomDid twentieth century English poetry lose or gain by freeing itself from the traditional poetic forms and conventions of earlier centuries? During the early years of the twentieth century, English poets' fondness for the traditional forms of poetry began to slip away. The horrors of war and the waste lands of broken civilisation did not...
Remembrance – concert of readings & presentations
Live at Queen Square BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, United KingdomResponses to the February workshop, The Story Behind the Face, showed how many of us had photographs and memories of family members who had served or been involved in the wars we mark on Remembrance Day. We will be bringing these memories together in a concert afternoon to bring this year of Bicentenary Workshops to...