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Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution
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Welcome to Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution. Promoting science, arts, and culture since 1824
16 Queen Square, Bath, Somerset BA1 2HN
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🔬 Bath Taps Into Science 2025 🧪
Sat 22 Nov, 10am–4pm @ BRLSI
Free family fun! Try experiments, explore STEM, and discover code-breaking, microscopes, AI, astronomy & more. No booking needed – just turn up!

#FamilyFun #STEM #BathEvents #Bath #science #fun
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🧬How can cell shape transform medicine? Professor Chris Bakal explores links between cell shape and cancer spread in The Shape of Things to Come. Thu 13 Nov, 7:30–9pm
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#CellBiology #CancerResearch #Science #Medicine #BRLSI
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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From post-war migration to identity politics, modern Britain was built by everyday people and their struggles. Join #KieranConnell & #SureshAriaratnam on 25 Nov, 7:30 pm. 🎟 www.brlsi.org/whatso... #MulticulturalBritain #BRLSI
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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After #ZohranMamdani became #NewYorkCity’s first Muslim mayor, Dr David Lewis-Baker holds a timely lecture exploring how economic change and inequality shape voter frustration and political responses.
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#PoliticsOfFailure #Neoliberalism #EconomicInequality #SocialJustice
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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💣 WW2 had a Mafia twist. The Sicilian Mafia teamed up with the US against Mussolini, shaping the post-war world in unexpected ways. Historian #TimNewark chats with #FrancisPike.
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#LuckyLuciano #TheMafiaAtWar #EmpireOfCrime #OrganisedCrimeHistory #HirohitosWar #EmpiresAtWar
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🎨👕BRLSI’s Academy of Imagination Becky is thrilled to share the two winning designs of our T-shirt design competition.
A huge thank you to all participants! Keep an eye on the Academy of Imagination page for upcoming events! www.brlsi.org/aoi/
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Bath resident Paul Browne is exploring the vicissitudes of life through the mundane, everyday act of washing up for his MA in Fine Art and visited my office today to do our dishes.

As a former artist. I’m always keen to support the creativity of Bathonians! 🎨

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October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🗝️ Orlando Furioso: The Poem That Shaped the World ✨
Explore Ariosto’s epic, from playful courtiers to hidden stories, in the stunning Elwin Room at BRLSI or via Zoom.
📅 Wed 12 Nov, 7:30PM
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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🎨 Making Your Mark: An Open Invitation to Engage with the World
🗓 11–17 Nov 10 AM–4 PM
📍 Free
@bathspauni.bsky.social exhibition at BRLSI, Bath
Explore artefacts, heritage & student work & make your own mark!
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November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🌟What did it mean to be a scientist in Victorian times? Learn how John Herschel shaped “doing science”!
🗣️ Stephen Case, PhD – historian & author of #CreaturesofReason
Attend in person or via Zoom: www.brlsi.org/whatso...

#JohnHerschel #HistoryOfScience #ScienceTalk #BRLSI
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🐴 Black Beauty in Bath 📖
Discover how Anna Sewell’s life in Bath inspired Black Beauty. Join Dr Celia Brayfield to explore the story behind the beloved novel.
🗓 5 Nov 🕢 7:30–9pm📍 BRLSI & Zoom 💷 £3–£6
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October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🚨 Only 8 tickets left! 🚨
Join us this Saturday for the Bath History Festival 2025 – a full day of talks from the Anglo-Saxons to the Georgians.
Featuring Prof Turi King, Cai Mason, Bradley Hopper, Vanessa Brett & Jim Riseley.
🎟https://www.brlsi.org/whatson/bath-history-festival-2025/
Bath History Festival 2025 – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Richard III, Abbey burials, Tudor portraits and much, much more. It’s our full-day festival of history!
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October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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📚 Big Read: Effi Briest 💬
Meet new people in Bath & chat about Effi Briest - a tale of love, freedom & expectation.
🗓 Wed 5 Nov, 11–12
📍 BRLSI, Bath
💷 Free–£3
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#BookClubBath #BathEvents #BathStudents #BRLSI #MeetNewFriends #BooksAndCoffee
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📚Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Join the Victorian Literature discussion group on Saturday 1 Nov. Dr Ann Thoresby Parker will lead a discussion exploring the novel and its contemporary relevance.
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#VictorianLiterature #BookDiscussion #AnneBrontë
Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a novel by Anne Brontë, published in 1848 is the most shocking of the novels published by the Brontë sisters, as it contravened the social conventions of the 19th century. It had initial success, but Charlotte Brontë prevented it being immediately reprinted. The novel's themes of domestic abuse and the powerlessness of women have led to it being described as the first feminist novel and the book now enjoys a growing popularity. The discussion will be led by Dr Ann Thoresby Parker.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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📜💓 The Philosophy of Love- from Plato to the Renaissance.
Join Prof. Angie Hobbs at BRLSI or on Zoom as she explores how Plato’s #Symposium inspired Ficino’s vision of love as a cosmic force.

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#Plato #Ficino #ThomasMore #Love #Philosophy #Renaissance
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🌍 Lifestyle vs. Regulation: what truly drives climate action? 🌍

Join us for Faultlines 4: Lifestyle Change & Regulation in Climate Policy- an all-day #Sustainability event online or in person, with top experts debating the future of climate action.
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#ClimateCrisis
October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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📜Bath History Festival 2025 comes to BRLSI on Sat 1 Nov! A full day of talks uncovering Bath’s past, from Richard III to the secrets beneath Bath Abbey. ☕Tickets include lunch, tea & coffee.
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#BathHistoryFestival #BathHistory #HistoryTalks
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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👻 Our ghostly friend is ready and waiting! 🕸️
🎃 Bones, Beasts & Broomsticks – free drop-in fun for kids this 28–29 Oct, 10am–4pm, BRLSI, Bath.
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#HalfTermFun #KidsActivities #SpookySeason #FamilyFun
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🎨 Take a virtual walk through 'A Personal View' exhibition currently on show at BRLSI! Catch it until close at 4pm on Saturday 25th.
Six artists, six perspectives – paint, clay, textiles & paper.
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#BRLSI #BathExhibition #TextileArt #Ceramics #CollageArt #Impressionism
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🎃💀 Becky’s in the cobwebby BRLSI basement with her ghostly mannequin, prepping bones, broomsticks & crafts for Bones, Beasts & Broomsticks! Free drop-in fun for kids 🕙 28–29 Oct, 10am–4pm 📍 BRLSI, Bath 👻 #HalfTermFun #FamilyFun
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Mike Nicholas will deliver a Military History talk, 'Ulundi 1879: Fall of the Zulu Kingdom' on Monday 27 October, from 7:30 pm. The presentation examines the climactic battle of the Anglo-Zulu war and its tragic aftermath. www.brlsi.org/whatson/ulun...
#MilitaryHistory #ZuluWar
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Ahead of her BRLSI talk on 3 Nov 2025, we asked Professor Tracey Hill 5 questions about Renaissance London. Find out which historical Londoner she would choose to go for a walk with!

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💭 Who would you take a walk with through Renaissance London?

#BRLSI #Renaissance
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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✨ BRLSI Collections Uncovered!
Thu 30 Oct, 7–9pm, Queen Square, Bath
Free members-only evening with insider stories, rare objects & a first look at our new digital exhibition The World Revealed.
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BRLSI Collections Uncovered! – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Join us for a special evening of curiosity, celebration & conversation at Queen Square!
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October 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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New types of fonts and new ways of arranging text on a page are a feature of #Renaissance books. Here’s a pleasing way to conclude a text, skillfully tapering the lines.
📷From the #BRLSI archive

See whats coming up in our BRLSI Renaissance Talks series: www.brlsi.org/series...
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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✨ 🎨Renaissance Colour Symbolism & Literature
With Roy Osborne MA

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Part of Renaissance: Journeys of Discovery at BRLSI, celerating the art, literature, and culture of this transformative era.
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM