Upcoming Talks, Exhibitions & Events

Over one hundred low-cost talks, events & 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!

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Wed, Oct 23

AGM

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Annual General Meeting

Get Tickets Free

Thu, Oct 24

Historical Association

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Recording War: IWM’s Blavatnik Art, Film & Photography Galleries

Caro Howell

Sat, Oct 26

Cercle Français

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cercle francais – les cevennes

Isabelle Schloesing

Mon, Oct 28

Free family fun!

Featured Mon 28 October at 10:00 am - Wed 30 October at 4:00 pm GMT

October half term at BRLSI!

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

Tue, Oct 29

Visual Arts

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Book Arts in the Age of Electronic Reproduction

Benjamin Maggs

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Oct 30

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Oct 30

Bath Astronomers

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Our Accidental Universe

Chris Lintott

Thu, Oct 31

Science

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life

Dr Ed Moody

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Nov 2

Poetry workshop

Featured 10:30 am - 1:00 pm

The Death of Orpheus

Curated & led by Sue Boyle

Sold Out £4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Nov 2

Creative workshop & readings

Featured 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Cafe Days in Bath

Curated by Sue Boyle & Ann Cullis

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00 1 ticket left

Mon, Nov 4

Bath Natural History Society

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The world of wasps

Steve Smailes

Mon, Nov 4

Poetry

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Gothic City: Bath & the Gothic Imagination

Duncan McGibbon

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Nov 5

Philosophy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

What is an organism?

Professor John Dupre

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Nov 6

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Nov 6

Book Club

Featured 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Big Read: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Led by David Skidmore

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Wed, Nov 6

Art

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Art from the Spirit World

Sean Jefferson

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Nov 7

Science / Geography

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Air pollution & environmental justice?

Professor Jo Barnes

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Nov 8

Science

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The life & science of Lord Kelvin

Dr Peter Ford

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Nov 9

Free event

11:00 am - 4:30 pm

Celebrating Bath as a City of Publishing

RSVP Now Free

Mon, Nov 11

Being Human Festival

Featured 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

FlourishCafe: Radical Intergenerational Wonder

Tue, Nov 12

Being Human Festival

Featured 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Bath Readathon!

Tue, Nov 12

BRLSI + University of Bath

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Seizing the Future: the Power of Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Dr Millicent Stone

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Wed, Nov 13

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Thu, Nov 14

Songs, readings & poetry

Featured 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

An afternoon with Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres & friends

Thu, Nov 14

BACAS Archaeology

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Medieval Myth Busting

James Wright

Fri, Nov 15

Being Human Festival

Featured 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Trees, Food and You!

Fri, Nov 15

Being Human Festival

Featured 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Being otherwise: Dancing the Pluriverse

Fri, Nov 15

Economics

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

How Economists Forgot the Real World (and Led Us Astray)

Nat Dyer

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Nov 16

History Festival

Featured Sat 16 November at 9:30 am - Sun 17 November at 5:00 pm GMT

Bath History Festival

Various speakers

Get Tickets £15.00 – £50.00

Sat, Nov 16

Being Human Festival

Featured 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Haunting the Archives

Mon, Nov 18

Music

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Classical Music in 1824

Margaret McAlpine & Cliff Haresign

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Nov 19

World Affairs

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

John Gray & Andreas Wasmuht: the future of liberalism

Professor John Gray & Andreas Wasmuht

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Wed, Nov 20

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Nov 20

BRLSI + University of Bath

Featured 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

The Bath search engine revolutionising drug discovery

David Kelly & Dr Andrew Chalmers

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Thu, Nov 21

German culture

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Populism & Language in Modern Germany

Dr Michael Kranert

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Nov 23

Cercle Français

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cercle francais – Jocelyn & John Merivale, une visite de la France a travers l’art

Isabelle Schloesing

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

Wed, Nov 27

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Thu, Nov 28

Climate crisis panel discussion

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

COP29 Azerbaijan: International co-operation for a sustainable future

Various speakers

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Dec 2

Poetry & Literature

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An evening of Ukrainian poetry

Marianna Kiyanovska

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

Wed, Dec 4

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Dec 4

Heritage

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bath Preservation Trust at 90 – campaigns & conservation

Alex Sherman

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Thu, Dec 5

Historical Association

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Fear & Fake News

Dr James Crossland

Fri, Dec 6

Astronomy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

New results from Gaia

Professor Michael Perryman

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Dec 11

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Thu, Dec 12

BACAS Archaeology

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Benedictines in Bath

Giles Mercer

Mon, Dec 16

Christmas lecture

Featured 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Victor Suchar Christmas Lecture: A conversation with Justin Webb

Justin Webb

Get Tickets £4.00 – £12.00

Tue, Jan 7

Philosophy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

How do we build a better world?

Andreas Wasmuht & Don Cameron

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Mar 1

FREE EVENT

Sat 1 March, 2025 - Tue 4 March, 2025