• The ‘Renaissance’ Big Read: Utopia by Thomas More

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

    Written in Latin during the great age of exploration, the discovery of a previously unknown island might not have seemed impossible

  • Italian – Advanced Language course

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

    Questo corso è pensato per chi ha già una buona base di italiano e desidera approfondire le proprie competenze linguistiche e culturali.

  • Learn Italian! Intermediate/Improvers

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

    This course is for learners who already know a little Italian and are ready to build on that foundation.

  • Learn Italian! Beginner Course

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

    Cinzia comes from Cremona and obtained a degree in Modern Languages at the University of Florence. She worked in Milan before moving to London

  • Earthly Delights: the artists of the Renaissance

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

    Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones’ book Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic change in European mentalities

  • Machiavelli: military judgement & political thought

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

    The Renaissance: Journeys of Discovery at BRLSI is a yearlong programme of talks and events exploring the many joys, discoveries

  • Gossip in Jane Austen

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

    In Jane Austen’s novels, gossip swirls around the characters. We will see how gossip is the life-blood of the small communities

  • Jane Austen’s Contradictory Characters

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

    Austen’s characters come to life partly because of their delicious – often absurd – inconsistencies

  • A Guide to Regency Dress

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

    Join Hilary Davidson, associate professor and chair of MA Fashion and Textile Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York as she presents her new book:

  • When Paul Simon & Bob Dylan went to Scarborough Fair

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

    Paul Simon and Bob Dylan are two of the most respected songwriters of the 1960s and beyond, and Scarborough Fair and Girl From the North Country

  • Regency Fashion in the Fashion Museum Bath Collection

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

    Join curator Elisabeth Murray to discover more about fashion during the Regency period, through the lens of the Fashion Museum Bath collection.