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The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) was set up in 1989 by academics to promote the study of the cultural history of the Romantic period. Since then, BARS has organised eight International conferences at various locations in the UK, has published the BARS Bulletin and Review twice-yearly, and currently has more than 350 members.

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18th –Century Interdisciplinary Seminar
Programme 2009 – 2010

All Seminars are at 17.15 in the University of Nottingham Staff Club

Autumn 2009


Tuesday 6 October.

Neil Howe (Nottingham).
‘Opposites Attract: Charles James Fox and William Pitt the Younger in Caricature’.

Tuesday 3 November.

Penny Pritchard (Hertfordshire).
‘Funeral Sermons’.

Tuesday 1 December.

Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent).
‘Wordsworth the Caveman’.


Spring 2010


Tuesday 26 January.

Richard Gaunt (Nottingham).
‘Sir Robert Peel’.

Tuesday 23 February.

Carol Bolton (Loughborough).
Solving ‘the problem of the Niger’: John Barrow’s Communications with the Colonial Office and the Quarterly Review
 

Tuesday 16 March.

Abigail Williams (Oxford).

‘Swift’s Journal to Stella’.

 

The seminar has received financial assistance from the departments of English Studies and French and the Dean’s Fund.

If you wish to propose a speaker please contact Bill Speck (bill.speck@nottingham.ac.uk) or Neil Howe ( ahxngh@nottingham.ac.uk)