From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has had her share of barriers to break down.

Join the historian and co-host of the chart-topping podcast Empire, William Dalrymple, as he shares the rarely told story of India’s role as a cultural and scientific superpower of the ancient world.

Award-Winning fashion designer, Patrick Grant talks to Lizzie Heffer about his new book - Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish - a passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but despairing of a broken global system.

Immerse yourself in a one-of-a-kind experience in this spectacular Silent Disco where audiences will don their headphones and dance the night away.

Following his acclaimed debut where he was dubbed ‘one to watch’ by The Times, Joseph Parsons has developed this new hour of stand up ahead of his first national tour.

FilmBath and Holburne are collaborating to screen one of the below iconic queer films at the Holburne PRIDE on Saturday 15 May and we want you to decide which one!

Discover your next Queer Read!

Come dance the day away with some great hits in the morning and afternoon with 30 minute sessions for all the family.

Join us on Saturday morning to learn about the history of pride flags while making your own hanging paper heart or rainbow ribbon wand.

Join us on Saturday morning for a beautiful concert with Bath based contemporary Folk duo, Humm.

Celebrate the very first Holburne Pride with a fun packed evening of dancing and some of the Southwests best up and coming Drag Artists.

A chance to hear from a broad range of creatives (including a photographer, spoken word poet and dancer and a curator) the talk is sure to shed light on an under explored area of modern queer art.

Maggie Hamblings portrait of Derek Jarman that now sits within the Holburne Collection will be the focus of this lecture, alongside the broader subject of queer art.

Chris Stephens will be in-conversation with a member of the Holburne Future Collective. Their discussion will cover the role that museums, exhibitions and those running them can play in shaping how Queer art is perceived and consider the opportunities and challenges such institutions present in promoting Queer Art.

Join us for a FREE drop-in zine making workshop between 4 and 6pm, on Friday the 14th of June as part of Holburne PRIDE.

From the 2022 cohort of the acclaimed creative writing program at Bath Spa University comes Ampersand, an ingenious anthology featuring a collection of mesmerising poems, short stories and novel excerpts.

Join us as leading environmental campaigner and Britain's first Green MP Caroline Lucas, shares her new book - Another England - in conversation with Max Porter; a thought-provoking event that will delve deep into our national history and make a bid to reclaim Englishness from the Brexit cheerleaders for exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia.

London’s award-winning literary salon makes a welcome return to Bath.

We’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Manny and the Baby, a brilliant new book set in modern day Bath and the 1930s London jazz scene, with a special evening of music and conversation.

From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.

Join writers Judith Robinson and Scott Pack as they travel the globe in search of great works of world literature.

Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations.

Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones has an unquenchable passion for the Renaissance period and his ‘pearl of a book’ (The Times) is a compelling tale of innovation in a world of sex, piety, revolution and discovery.

Writing Space is a peer-led Creative Writing Group that welcomes writers of all abilities, providing a regular chance to experiment and express yourself through the written word.

With two thousand years of history and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a rich treasure trove for curious minds.

Four Little Adults is a unique, modern story about the limits of love and grown-ups with growing pains.

Screening of The Associate with Whoopi Goldberg will be followed by a talk with Ellen E Jones, Guardian journalist, BBC Radio 4 broadcaster and author of Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world.

Jeremy Bowen, BBC International Editor, has reported on the Middle East for more than 30 years and is unqiuely placed to explain its complex past and current troubled present, helping to shed light on the diverse political, cultural and religious differences.

Whether you are living with recent loss or were bereaved long in the past, this gentle, flexible and no-pressure workshop will offer practical tools to get you through the day (and night) when you are grieving.