Display of Events from Sat 23 March – Wed 11 December – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

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Photo

Mon, Sep 16

Free exhibition

Sat 23 March - Sat 12 October

‘The World Revealed’ Exhibition

From the BRLSI Collection

How do we best protect the animals of the future?

Tue, Sep 17

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The RSPCA at 200 – past, present & future

Suzanne Norbury

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Wed, Sep 18

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Sep 18

Free exhibition tour

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

Thu, Sep 19

Science / Natural History

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Alien Invaders: plants & animals that have changed the world

Dr Ben Aldiss

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Sep 19

German social evening

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

German games & wine tasting!

Led by Trixy Alberga & Simon Guyett

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Sep 23

Military History / World Affairs

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Ukraine & Gaza: Challenges for Western Solidarity

Con Coughlin

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Sep 24

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

William Holburne: A life in objects

Hannah Mills

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Sep 25

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Sep 25

Free exhibition tour

Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

Thu, Sep 26

Historical Association

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Empires of the Normans

Professor Levi Roach

Fri, Sep 27

Free exhibition tour

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

World Revealed Exhibition Tour

Fri, Sep 27

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Literary, lively, learned: Farleigh Castle & Bath in 1824

Dr Mary Redmayne

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Sep 30

Talk with live music

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bluegrass: where it came from & where it’s goin’

Leon Hunt & Mike Pryor

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Oct 1

Philosophy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Global Origins of Psychology

Richard Valentine

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Oct 2

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Oct 2

World Heritage

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

World Heritage Bath: getting the details right

Alex Sherman

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Thu, Oct 3

Sustainability

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Sustainable Hydrogen for net zero

Professor Tim Mays

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Fri, Oct 4

Astronomy

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Professor Mike Cruise

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 7

Poetry & Literature

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

What did Mr Hyde do when he wasn’t Dr Jekyll?

Duncan McGibbon

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Oct 8

History & World Affairs

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Greek Myths for a post-truth world

Yiannis Gabriel

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Tue, Oct 8

BRLSI + University of Bath

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bath Entrepreneurs of the future!

Various speakers

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Wed, Oct 9

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Wed, Oct 9

Book discussion

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Big Read: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Led by Betty Suchar

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Thu, Oct 10

Archaeology

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Temperance movement in Bath & Bristol

Alan Clarke

Fri, Oct 11

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Shelleys and Bath

Deepali Gaskell

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Sat, Oct 12

All day event

9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Women & Fashion: A historical perspective

Various speakers

Sat, Oct 12

Victorian Literature

Featured 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Led by Victoria Trenchard

Get Tickets Free – £3.00

Mon, Oct 14

History & Culture

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Churchill: a life in cartoons

Dr Tim Benson

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Wed, Oct 16

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Thu, Oct 17

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Athenaeum Club: a history

Michael Wheeler

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Thu, Oct 17

Bicentenary series

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

200 years of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Sabine Purshouse

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Mon, Oct 21

Music

Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Voices of Bob Dylan

Matthew Zuckerman

Get Tickets £3.00 – £6.00

Wed, Oct 23

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

Thu, Oct 24

Historical Association

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Caro Howell

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

Astronomy

7:30 am - 9:00 pm

Our Accidental Universe

Chris Lintott

Wed, Oct 30

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan

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 – workshop

Curated & led by Sue Boyle

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

Sat, Nov 2

Concert of readings

Featured 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Remembrance – concert of readings & presentations

Curated by Sue Boyle & Ann Cullis

Get Tickets £4.00 – £8.00

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

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 – £12.00

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

Archaeology

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Medieval Myth Busting

James Wright

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

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

An image of John Gray by Justine Stoddart.

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 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Bath search engine revolutionising drug discovery

David Kelly & Dr Andrew Chalmers

Get Tickets Free – £12.00

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

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 11

Community event

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Reading Round

Led by Jasbinder Bilan