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Movie at the Museum: Architecton

Museum of Bath Architecture The Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, The Paragon, The Vineyards, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom

Screening of the new release Architecton (2024) at the Museum of Bath Architecture on The Paragon.

The Vela Intercept – An Immersive Historical Mystery

Herschel Museum of Astronomy 19 New King St, Bath, United Kingdom

“3 years ago, we dispatched satellites to monitor for illegal nuclear testing beyond our atmosphere.Today, these satellites were triggered.”Travel back to the year 1967 – only 3 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis – and take part in the decisions that could have ignited the sparks of nuclear war.For ages 18+Limited to 18 tickets so […]

£12

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Award-winning biographer and historian Anne Sebba presents an extraordinary and never before told account of the only entire female orchestra in any Nazi prison camps.

The Life & Work of William & Margaret Huggins

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Sir William Huggins was the Victorian pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy. 2024 was the bicentennial of his birth.

Past Present Future Podcast Live

Komedia Bath 22-23 Westgate St, Bath, United Kingdom

This year sees the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death (1965), his greatest triumph (VE Day/1945) and his greatest disaster (Gallipoli/1915). 

Silk, Waterwheels, Iron and Smoke: Gardens of Industrial Improvement

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Georgian attitudes to the industrial were devoid of later sensibilities to the conditions of manufactories and communities during the height of the Industrial Revolution that hid such activity from view.

Woven into History: Uncovering Hidden Lives of Viking Age Women

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

The tiny remnants of a Viking ship sail with red-and-white stripes. A left-handed mitten lost in a glacial mountain pass. Women’s names carved in runes onto spindle whorls and loom weights

Weir’d Bath: Power from the River Avon

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Pulteney Weir is an iconic structure, but why have it in the heart of Bath? What was its purpose? Together with the two weirs at Twerton, it was key to Bath’s fortunes.

Blue Gold: The Lure of Indigo

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

How the “Devil’s colour” became “King of the Dyes”

East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood

BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

East Lynne (1861) was one of the most successful novels of the mid-Victorian period.

World Heritage Day 2025

Celebrate Bath’s World Heritage status with free activities for all.

Free

World Heritage Day at Bath Medical Museum

Bath Medical Museum 1 Hetling Court, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Enjoy hands-on activities in the room where Jane Austen accompanied her brother to ‘take the waters’ to cure his gout.