Display of Events from Sat 8 June – Mon 28 October – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

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Sat, Jan 13

External bookings

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

L’Estuaire de la Gironde

Charles Eve

Sat, Jan 13

Queen Square

Featured 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Franklin Relics at BRLSI

Logan Zachary

£4.00 – £8.00

Tue, Jan 16

External bookings, online only

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Gas seepage in the fjords of western Spitzbergen

Dr Nil Rodes

Tue, Jan 16

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Authoritarian International: Learning, Adaptation, and Failure

Dr Stephen Hall

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Jan 17

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Polish Romanticism: the birth of modern Poland

Professor Maciej Junkiert

£3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Jan 18

External bookings

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Aztecs abroad: the indigenous american discovery of Europe

Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock

Thu, Jan 18

Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

German literature: a short story by Martin Walser

Alan Pringle

£3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Jan 20

Members’ event

Featured 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Members-only event: bicentenary coffee & cake

Free event

Free

Sat, Jan 27

External booking

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Spanning the Political Divide – Neo-Palladianism & the C18th Landscape

Dr Carole Fry

Fri, Feb 2

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630: his life & work

Nicholas Pallett

£3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Feb 3

Queen Square

Featured 10:30 am - 1:00 pm

The Story behind the Face – workshop

Sue Boyle & Ann Cullis

£4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Feb 3

Queen Square

Featured 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Performing Poetry – workshop

Led by Sue Boyle

£4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Feb 3

EXTERNAL GROUP

2:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Building Resilience: Learn, Play, Eat

Mon, Feb 5

External booking

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

Dr Anna Keay

Mon, Feb 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Nelson & the slave trade

Chris Brett

£3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Feb 6

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Futures: The Threats of Uncertainty, the seduction of certainty

Professor Helen Haste

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Feb 7

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Panoramas for print & VR

John Law

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Feb 21

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

BRLSI Big Read: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Marie-Louise Luxemburg

Free – £4.00

Thu, Feb 22

External booking

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

three hundred years of freemasonry in Bath

Malcolm Toogood

Thu, Feb 22

Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The displaced – german refugees in 1945

Alan Pringle

£3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Feb 24

Exhibition

Sat 24 February
10:00 am - Tue 27 February
4:00 pm GMT

BRILLIANTLY ENGINEERED!

Free exhibition

Sat, Feb 24

External booking

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

The Work of Thomas Archer (1668-1743)

Dr Helen Lawrence-Beaton

Mon, Feb 26

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

HMS Exeter 1929-1942: Pride of the West Country

David Verghese

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Feb 28

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The War in Ukraine – is peace possible?

Paul D’Anieri & Rajan Menon

£4.00 – £8.00

Thu, Feb 29

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Wastewater epidemiology: monitoring public health in the community

Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern

£3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Mar 1

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Extraordinary Women: Mary Somerville

Elisabetta Strickland

£4.00 – £40.00

Sat, Mar 2

External booking

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Vizille – un château et une révolution

Thierry Viennois

Mon, Mar 4

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Extraordinary Women: Ada Lovelace

Professor Ursula Martin

£4.00 – £8.00

Tue, Mar 5

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

How to win at life: game theory, co-operation and human history

Sean O’Connor

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Mar 6

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Saving BRLSI in the 1990s

Michael King

£3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Mar 9

Hybrid Event

Featured 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Extraordinary Women Symposium (an all day event)

Various speakers

£12.00 – £24.00

Mon, Mar 11

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Shakespeare’s Passionate Cousin

Duncan McGibbon

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Mar 13

Queen Square

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

BRLSI Big Read: Sense & Sensibility

Led by Penelope Ruddock

Free – £4.00

Wed, Mar 13

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Insect Declines, Biodiversity and the State of Nature

Professor Stuart Reynolds

£3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Mar 14

External booking

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Exhuming Oldfield: A house detective story

Dr Robert Heath

Fri, Mar 15

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Extraordinary Women: Dolly Parton & Clara Schumann

Matthew Zuckerman

£4.00 – £8.00

Mon, Mar 18

Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Felix Yaniewicz: A Musical Migrant in Georgian Britain

Josie Dixon

£3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Mar 19

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

John Gray on ‘The New Leviathans – Thoughts after Liberalism’

Professor John Gray

£4.00 – £8.00

Tue, Mar 19

Queen Square

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Rokitansky – Wissenschaftler, Philosoph und Politiker im 19.Jahrhundert

Dr Bruno Bubna-Kasteliz

£3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Mar 21

External booking

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Benedictine Bath c.950 – 2024

Dr Giles Mercer

Sat, Mar 23

External booking

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Inigo Triggs – Edwardian Architect

Wendy Bishop

Sat, Mar 23

External booking

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cercle francais – la politique francaise contemporaine

Steve Wharton

Wed, Mar 27

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Max Hastings – The Cuban Missile Crisis

Sir Max Hastings

Free – £8.00

Thu, Mar 28

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Climate change in the Arctic

Dr Philippe Blondel

£3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Mar 30

Free walk

Featured 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

NOW and then: Bath in the 1850s vs today

Free walk

Tue, Apr 2

External booking

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Ferns of Bath

Dr Helena Crouch

Tue, Apr 2

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

How to test the paranormal

Professor Chris French

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Apr 3

Free exhibition tour

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition tour

Free exhibition tour

Free

Wed, Apr 3

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bath, Pollution & the Environment

Stuart Burroughs

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Apr 3

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An introduction to John Herschel

Emily Winterburn

£3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Apr 4

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

HOUSES OF STRAW: GROWING BUILDINGS SUSTAINABLY

Professor Pete Walker

£3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Apr 4

External booking

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Fluid flow, carbon capture & storage

Professor Jonathan Bull

Fri, Apr 5

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition tour

Free

Mon, Apr 8

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Benin, Brass, Bristol & Slavery

Tony Coverdale

£3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Apr 10

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Madama Butterfly

Mark Langley

£3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Apr 12

Free exhibition tour

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition tour

Free

Sat, Apr 13

Queen Square

Featured 10:30 am - 1:00 pm

The Sense of Place – workshop

Sue Boyle & Andrew Lawrence

£4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Apr 13

Queen Square

Featured 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Art of Portraiture – concert of readings & presentations

Led by Sue Boyle

£4.00 – £8.00

Tue, Apr 16

Free walk

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

I see no ships – Nelson & Bath

Free walk

Tue, Apr 16

Hybrid Event

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Mining, mobility & Latin American communities

Tom Gatehouse

£3.00 – £6.00