All Things Bright and Beautiful

27 April 2012

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Latest news

Adelard of Bath - Sponsor our forthcoming book

The only full-length book on his life and work, Adelard of Bath: the First English Scientist, by Louise Cochrane, has long been unobtainable.

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Museums at Night - Friday 17th May

BRLSI will open its 20th Anniversary Exhibition late on Friday 17th May as part of Museums at Night, the annual festival of after-hours cultural opening.

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Did you know...

BRLSI and nobility

BRLSI produces a weekly e-mail Bulletin which goes out to over 2000 people, including two Nobel Prize winners!

Curatorial Curiosities

Cave bear canine: Ursus spelaeus was a common European bear during the ice ages, it was at least equivalent in size to the largest of modern bears, the Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), if not larger. Their remains are found most commonly in caves, and this specimen was found in Wookey Hole in the Mendips, Somerset.