This is a free Bath Arts Collective event; please click on Book Tickets for full booking details. Join us and be immersed in creativity with a mesmerising collection of works...
Illustrated 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...
A 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...
This 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...
William Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among his most celebrated works but, unlike his plays, they seem to have been largely forgotten following their publication in 1609. A second edition appeared in...
Sign 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...
The 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...
Our 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...
Was 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...
Did 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...
Responses 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...