Don’t miss the Bath Comedy Festival

Running until 16 April, the Bath Comedy Festival has already started to treat Bath to performances from some of the biggest names from the world of comedy, including Reginald D Hunter, Julian Clary, Fred MacAulay, Spencer Jones, Elf Lyons, Emmanuel Sonubi, Patrick Monahan and Zoe Lyons, alongside circuit stalwarts and the best of the up-and-coming generation of comedians. Venues span the length and breadth of the historic city, including Bath Forum, Walcot House, The Ring O Bells, The Hop Pole, Widcombe Social Club, The Bell, Komedia, Rondo Theatre and Bath Cider House. Highlights include the April Fools’ Gala on 1 April with names including Reginald D Hunter, Ronnie Golden, Rowland Rivron, Helen Lederer and Cerys Nelmes (MC) at Bath Forum. The Ring O Bells is hosting 16 shows from the likes of Chris McGlade, Anuvab Pal, David Eagle, Aideen McQueen, Carl Carzana and Adele Cliff. Walcot House also plays host to circuit legends such as Matt Price, Elf Lyons, Spencer Jones, Alan Francis and Patrick Monahan.

There is a new creative kids’ programme called Junior Jokers with activities, competitions and familyfriendly comedy shows for all ages. And for the first time the Forum hosts the Bath Comedy Festival New Act Competition Final on 14 April. Julian Clary and Ian Shaw have a headline event at Bath Forum on 15 April and Zoe Lyons plays Komedia on 16 April to round off the festival programme. bathcomedy.com

The Fashion Museum Bath’s world-class collection has found a temporary home at luxury glovemaker Dents Headquarters in Warminster while it works to create a new museum at the Old Post Office in the centre of Bath.

The Fashion Museum closed its doors at the Assembly Rooms at the end of last year and the curatorial team have since packed up the collection and moved its 100,000 objects into the storage facility. The building provides the museum with a large storage area that meets the high environmental and security standards required for preservation of a museum collection as well as space for the curatorial team to work.

The curatorial team is continuing its active programme of loans to museums around the world and objects from the collection will feature in four major exhibitions opening this spring, including Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

Established in 1777, Dents is one of the UK’s leading heritage fashion brands with a long tradition of making hand-crafted luxury leather gloves. The firm has supplied handmade gloves to royalty, celebrities and the film industry including the late Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation glove, worn as part of the ceremony in 1953. fashionmuseum.co.uk/collection. Dents: dentsgloves.com