Welcome to BARS

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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the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar series


The first meeting of this new seminar was held on 1st July 2009 in the Council Chamber of Manchester’s Central Library. The speakers were:

Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire) ‘Revolution in the Public Mind: The Irish Science of Richard Kirwan’
Amber Regis (Keele University) ‘Erasing Digression from the Memoirs of John Addington Symonds’
Brian Maidment (University of Salford) ‘The Morphology of Mishap - London “Miseries” 1810-1850’
Francesca Scott (University of Warwick), ‘'Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith and the Sexual Female Body'’

Future events are proposed for 2009: Wednesday 3rd October, 2-5pm, and 2010: Wednesday 6th January, 2-5pm, and Wednesday 7th April, 2-5pm. Details will be posted shortly.

The seminar is grateful for the financial support of the University of Salford, the British Association for Romantic Studies, and the British Association for Victorian Studies.
For further information  or to put you on our mailing list please email Sharon Ruston at s.ruston@salford.ac.uk