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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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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 420 members.

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(Centres for Romantic Studies, and lists of Universities offering MAs and taught MPhils in Romantic Studies have been moved to the new Teaching Romanticism pages. See menu .)

Societies, Archives and Databases

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: a Visual Record.  Online image archive at http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/

BARS Mailbase Archives http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html

Bentham Project (UCL) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/index.htm

Bible in 19th-Century British Literature and Thought - LISA (e-journal)

Blake Society http://www.blakesociety.org.uk/

British Association for Victorian Studies http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/bavs/bavs.htm

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies http://www.bsecs.org.uk/

The British Library http://www.bl.uk/

Burney Society http://dc37.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/burney/index.html

Byron Society (The) - email TheByronSociety@amserve.com

Byron Society of America http://www.english.udel.edu/byron/

Byron's Correspodence and other items: online edition by Peter Cochran (approx. 1600 letters): http://petercochran.wordpress.com/

International Byron Society - Byron's Library - A searchable edition of Byron's three Book Sale Catalogues is now on the IntByrSoc website at Byron's Book Sale Catalogues

Charles Lamb Society http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1492/clsoc.htm

Common-Place (American Studies) http://common-place.org

Compass Literature http://www.literature-compass.com/

Corvey Project http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/corvey

http://www.digitalwordsworth.org - From Goslar to Grasmere, William Wordsworth: Electronic Manuscripts

English Archive (OUP) enghttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/english/english_archive.htmllish_archive

Friends of Coleridge http://www.friendsofcoleridge.com/index.html

German Society for English Romanticism http://www.englische-romantik.de

Images of Napoleon and British Fears of Invasion, 1789 - 1815 ( Prints from the Curzon Collection)

International Byron Society http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org/

International Colloquium on the Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/PercyByssheShelley.htm

International Conference on Romanticism http://icr.byu.edu/

International Gothic Association http://info.wlu.ca/%7Ewwwgac/

Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, by J.R. de J. Jackson jacksonbibliogrhttp://jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/aphy.library.utoronto

Jane Austen Centre, Bath indexhttp://www.janeausten.co.uk/index.ihtml

Jane Austen Miscellany http://www.jimandellen.org/austen/misc.html

James Hogg: Research Project (University of Stirling) http://www.jameshogg.stir.ac.uk/index.php

James Hogg Society http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/research/profile/hoggsociety.php  

Japanese Association of English Romanticism http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hikari/jaer.htm

John Clare Page http://www.johnclare.info/

John Clare Society http://www.johnclare.org.uk/

John Clare Trust http://www.johnclaretrust.org/

The Journal of John Waldie Theatre Commentaries 1799-1830 http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclalib/dsc/waldie/

Keats-Shelley Association of America http://www.rc.umd.edu/ksaa/ksaa.html

Keats-Shelley Journal http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/ksj.nsf

Keats-Shelley Memorial Association http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/publications.html

Lady Caroline Lamb Website http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/caro/index.html

Maria Graham Website (The) http://www.ntu.ac.uk/hum/centres/english/the_maria_graham_project.html

MLA Directory of Periodicals (for MLA Members. Searchable) http://www.mla.org/dop

NINES http://www.nines.org/

Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals: Exhibition of materials from the University of Toronto  http://bookhistory.fis.utoronto.ca/annuals/index.html

Nineteenth Century Studies Association http://www.selu.edu/ncs

Nineteenth-Century Contexts http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08905495.asp

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) http://publish.uwo.ca/~nassr

Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism http://icr.byu.edu/Prism(s).htm

Reading Experience Database 1450-1945: The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (RED)

Romantic Circles - Scholarly Resources http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/

Bibliography http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/bibliography

Romantic Era Redefined (The). For information abut this subscription source see the BARS Members page of this website (limited-period free access to BARS members) or: http://alexanderstreet.com/ROMRtrial.htm

Romantic Circles Praxis - essays on Romantic Studies Topics http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/  

Fictions of Byron http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/byron-fictions/index.html 

Shelley Sites/Sights 1999-2001 http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/misc/shelleysites/index.html

Reviews http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/

Romanticism http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/rom

Romanticism on the Net http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/conferences.shtml

Romantic Links Page http://www.english.upenn.edu/%7Emgamer/Romantic/

Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland www.ssnci.com (website)  SSNCI (word accessible file)   SSNCI

STAR Project - Scotland's Transatlantic Relations http://www.star.ac.uk

"Theater and Popular Songs, Catches, Airs, and Art Songs of the
Romantic Period." http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music/index.html

Voice of the Shuttle - Romanticism section http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750

Walter Scott Digital Archive -

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.uk/publications/criticism/authorindex.html

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/publications/criticism/subjectindex.html

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/publications/criticism/articles.html

William Blake Archive www.blakearchive.org

William Gilbert Website http://www.williamgilbert.com

Wordsworth Circle http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/journal/wordsworth/

The Wordsworth Trust  www.wordsworth.org.uk

Wordsworth Variorum Archive http://www.wordsworthvariorum.com