📷 Some inventions quietly change the way we see the world.
Worlds Apart, a new exhibition from the BRLSI Collection, explores early photography through rare images of Bath and China.
Francis Lockey’s delicate calotypes show Bath nearly 170 years ago, while photographs from the Second Opium War capture everyday life in China. Despite the distance, photographers focused on similar subjects: gateways, landscapes, and daily life.
Historic objects from the BRLSI collection reveal the early challenges of photography and bring these scenes into focus.
Worlds Apart
28 March – 26 September
Free at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 🏛️
Link in bio
#Bath #VisitBath #BRLSI #PhotographyHistory #EarlyPhotography #FoxTalbot #Daguerreotype #BathHeritage #MuseumVisit #HistoricPhotography #China #SecondOpiumWar
Romantic Europe comes alive through Thomas Moore ✨
Join Professor Diego Saglia and the world of poetry, politics, travel, music, and all the drama of a Europe in upheaval.
From Napoleon to Byron, from Paris to Italy, discover how Thomas Moore moved through (and helped shape) a fast-changing cultural world 🌍🎶
📅 Fri 22 May 7:30–9:00 pm
link in bio✨
#thomasmoore #romanticism #poetry #literature #historytalk #musicandliterature #napoleonicera #europeanhistory #booktickets #bathspauniversity✨
🌟 Democracy Under Threat – New BRLSI Series 🌟
Join leading thinkers, politicians & journalists as they explore challenges facing democracy today from polarisation and free speech to digital change and global pressures.
🎤 Talks, debates & discussions
📍 BRLSI & online
📅 Includes full-day conference on 4 July
🔗Link in bio
Join us on May 28 for another journey through the Renaissance! 🌍✨ Discover how ideas travelled from East to West with Dr. Peter Ford & Deepali Gaskell in their talk 'From Trade Routes to Industry: The Renaissance Journey of Ideas.
See brlsi.org/whatson link in bio🌟
Thank you to all our fans, friends and family for travelling far and wide to make our truly magical EVOL launch event at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution ✨🌟💫
A stunning venue @brlsi and thank you to @mrbsemporium for supporting us on our first book launch!
@townleykelley@oliverhurst@evoltrilogy
Huge thank you to @tabithahewittwales for saving the day with these superb photos! 📸
#scifi #booklaunch
🧵 Embroidered Lettering: 3-Week Creative Course 🧵
Give your favourite top or bag a personal twist by stitching a word or phrase that means something to you 💬🧵
Led by Anna Chapman-Andrews @lovemakerscafe
📍 BRLSI
📅 Wednesdays: 3, 10 & 17 June 2026
🕖 7:00–9:00 pm
🎟️ Link in bio for sign up
Over three relaxed, hands-on evenings you’ll design and create your own embroidered lettering piece:
Week 1 (3 June): planning, prep & practice
Week 2 (10 June): stitching your design
Week 3 (17 June): finishing touches & refinement
Everything you need is included
Perfect for confident beginners and up - no pressure, just creativity and good company.
#embroiderycourse #sewing #design #sewingcourse #create
We’re constantly told to be faster and more efficient. But is that how meaningful change happens?
On 19th May Dr Alison Powell (@lsemediaandcommunications ) looks at how innovation really emerges in everyday places like classrooms, community groups, and healthcare settings, and what that might mean for how we think about the future.
What do you think - does real progress feel fast or slow?
🍃We are Nature, Not Machines.
📅 Tue 19 May
⏰ 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Visit @brlsi.org /whatson - link in bio 🍃
#BRLSI #Philosophy #naturenotmachines #community #healthcare #future #Innovation
📷Steps of an unknown building
Lockey, 1853–1858, waxed paper calotype negative
See more in Worlds Apart: Rare Early Photographs of China & Bath - a free exhibition exploring the origins of photography and the beauty found in everyday scenes across continents. From 170-year-old views of Bath to striking images of 19th-century China.
Open now- Sat 26 September
⏰ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Monday-Saturday
🎟 Free entry
#WorldsApart #BRLSI #PhotographyExhibition #Art #earlyphotography #BathUK #Lockey #BRLSI #whatsoninbath #collection #museum
Party in the City is back 🎶
A full evening of free live music across genres, from barbershop and folk to jazz, classical, and comedy song.
📅 Fri 15 May 5:30–9:30 pm
📍 BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath
🎟 Free! Just turn up and enjoy the music!
Did Darwin’s theories help shape the “ascent of women” in science and society?
Professor Pippa Catterall will be exploring the unexpected links between Darwinism, gender, and progress. We look forward to seeing you there.
📅 Thu 14 May,6:30–8:00 pm
🎟 £3–£6 -link in bio
🍽 🍹Optional dinner & discussion at @ravenofbath afterwards
#darwin #gender #women #discussion #darwinism #science #society #darwinstheories
How did early Victorian science shape our understanding of the mind and humanity?
Discover the life and legacy of #JamesCowlesPrichard - anthropologist and critical voice in early psychiatry
Tue 12 May 7:30–9:00 pm
🎟link in bio
#anthropology #victorianthinking #bath #whatsoninbath #phschiatry
Coming up this May at #BRLSI🌿
There’s something for everyone this month. From big philosophical questions and cutting-edge science to poetry, heritage, and creativity.
Take a look at brlsi.org/whatson and join us for a brilliant month ahead (link in bio) ✨
