During World War II, between the evening of 25 April and the early morning of 27 April 1942, Bath suffered three air raids in reprisal for RAF raids on the German cities of Lübeck and Rostock, part of the Luftwaffe campaign popularly known as the Baedeker Blitz.
Etiopski cesar Haile Selassie I. je, med letoma 1936-1940, preživel štiri leta v izgnanstvu v Fairfield House v Bathu.