Over one hundred low-cost talks & free exhibitions every year, open to everyone. Covering a wide range of topics, talks at BRLSI have one thing in common; you will always learn something new!
Upcoming Talks and Exhibitions
Free exhibition
Sat 23 March - Sat 12 October
Local heritage
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Change & Challenge: the history of Bath’s Assembly Rooms
Dr TImothy Moore
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Philosophy
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What is the basis of ethics?
Professor Simon Blackburn
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
Heritage
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Mr Pulteney’s Bridge: the first 250 years
Dr Michael Rowe & Paul Jackson
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
Sustainability
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Putting climate change solutions on the supermarket shelf
Professor Christopher Chuck
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Astronomy
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Reaching across the gulf of space: William Huggins at 200
Hugh Allen
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Poetry workshop
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Fled is that music – creative workshop
Led by Sue Boyle
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
Concert of readings
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Romantic Narratives – concert of readings & presentations
Led by Sue Boyle
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
FREE pop-up event!
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Myra, an Elegy for an unknown lady by Dr William Oliver
Duncan McGibbon
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Big Read
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Big Read: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Erika Giffard-Moore
Get Tickets Free – £3.00
FREE pop-up event!
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Stella Townson’s Cafe Days in Bath
BRLSI bicentenary workshop members
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Jane Austen
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Dress & Diversion in Jane Austen’s Bath
Penelope Byrde Ruddock
Sold Out £4.00 – £12.00
Bicentenary series
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The RSPCA at 200 – past, present & future
Suzanne Norbury
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
Bicentenary series
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William Holburne: A life in objects
Hannah Mills
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Bicentenary series
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Literary, lively, learned: Farleigh Castle & Bath in 1824
Dr Mary Redmayne
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Music
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Bluegrass: where it came from & where it’s goin’
Leon Hunt & Mike Pryor
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Sustainability
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Sustainable Hydrogen for net zero
Professor Tim Mays
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Astronomy
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The Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Professor Mike Cruise
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Military History
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Rome’s African emperor & his campaigns in Scotland
Dr Simon Elliott
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00
Poetry workshop
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The Death of Orpheus – workshop
Curated & led by Sue Boyle
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
Concert of readings
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Remembrance – concert of readings & presentations
Curated by Sue Boyle & Ann Cullis
Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00
Military History
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The Welsh in Afghanistan, 1839-2022
Gareth Jones
Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00