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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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Who first observed the Moon through a telescope in England - before Galileo? 🌙🔭

Join Tony Symes on 5 Dec to learn more about this often-forgotten genius- Thomas Harriot.

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#ThomasHarriot #RenaissanceJourney #BRLSI
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🎄✨ BRLSI Christmas Market is back tomorrow!✨🎄
🗓️ Thu 27 Nov – Sun 14 Dec

💝 BRLSI Members receive 10% off bauble-making sessions!
👉www.brlsi.org/xmas/

#BRLSI #BRLSIChristmasMarket #BathChristmasMarket #BathEvents
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Step back 500 years for A Tudor Christmas 🎄👑 Carol singing, mince pies, mulled wine & twelve days of feasts and pageants. Historians Alison Weir & Siobhan Clarke bring Yuletide history to life.

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#TudorChristmas #BRLSI #HistoryLovers #YuletideHistory
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🌍 COP30 Demystified: Is the World Any Further Forward?

Your questions are welcomed in this panel & audience discussion unpacking the outcomes of COP30 in Belém.

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#BRLSI #COP30 #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #Sustainability
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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✒️In 1501#AldusManutius commissioned a new italic typeface. A change that made big waves in Renaissance reading.

Discover more about the printing revolution that transformed Europe with #DrKristianJensen on Mon 1st Dec

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📸 BRLSI Collection

#BRLSI #Renaissance
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🎨✨ How did the #Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper album cover come to life and why isn’t its co-creator better known?

Join a livestream with #popartist #JannHaworth as she shares stories from the 1960s art scene, #PeterBlake, women in art + more!

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#SgtPepper #Albumart
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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From diamond profits and land speculation to sugar plantations and enslaved labour. Join historian Dr Colin Fisher as he uncovers how the glamour of Bath’s social scene was funded.

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#Georgian #Bath #BRLSI #Lecture #History
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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What does it mean to lose the self?
Philosopher Dan Zahavi, #universityofcopenhagen- looks at different senses of self, and asks whether psychedelic experiences can ever lead to a completely selfless state.
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#philosophy #DanZahavi #consciousness #ego #psychedelics
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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🔎✨ Exploring Renaissance curiosity at BRLSI!
📷 Sir Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum (1627), BRLSI Collection, inspires our next talk:
📅 Thomas Harriot: Renaissance Astronomer, Navigator & Mathematician
🎙️ Tony Symes, 5 Dec, 7:30pm
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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🎄✨ BRLSI Christmas Market 2025! ✨🎄
📍16–18 Queen Sq, Bath
🗓️ 27 Nov–14 Dec / 🕒 Mon–Wed 10–4 / Thu–Sun 10–6

Discover unique gifts from rotating local makers in BRLSI’s beautiful Georgian building 🎁 Plus, craft your own Christmas bauble with @lovemakerscafe! 💫
👉 brlsi.org/xmas/
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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With #ZohranMamdani elected as NYC’s first Muslim mayor, what do shifting public moods mean for democracy?

Join Dr David Lewis-Baker for The Politics of Failure & Despair – Tues 18 Nov, 7:30pm.

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#PoliticsOfFailure #SocialChange
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Interested in #books and the history of #printing? Looking for something great to do this week? Explore historical objects –including the oldest letterpress book in #BRLSI collections in an #exhibition curated by #students from #BathSpaUni #MakingYourMark. #Bath #Somerset
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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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🗝️ 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
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#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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📚 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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📜💓 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