University of Edinburgh Outline Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its ninth year,… Read more »
In summer 2024, working on my BARS conference paper, I reread a Victorian book of art criticism by William Sharp (another name of Fiona Macleod’s – it’s a complicated story… Read more »
Topic: Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented acceleration and densification of human movements that generated, perhaps for… Read more »
Dear BARS members, Please find below the link to a recording of a staged reading of Joanna Baillie’s The Tryal that took place on 23 October, 2024, at the Theatre Royal in… Read more »
The Byron Society invites applications for a PhD bursary of up to £5,000 per year. Applications are open to new and existing full-time PhD students enrolled at a UK university… Read more »
https://www.thebyronsociety.com/events/2025-newstead-abbey-byron-conference/ Programme: https://www.thebyronsociety.com/2025-newstead-abbey-conference-programme/ 2025 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference 25-26 April, Newstead Abbey Byron’s posthumous reputation is a complex – not to say controversial – topic. This is highlighted by the… Read more »
Chawton House is best known as the home of Edward Austen Knight (the younger brother of Jane Austen), who inherited the estate in 1794. The house sits on the rural… Read more »
Dear BARS Members, We are very pleased to announce our next digital event! The BARS President’s Fellow for 2024, Dr. Yasser Shams Khan, will be giving a talk entitled “Tippoo Saib at Astley’s Amphitheatre: Exploring… Read more »
On a Saturday afternoon in November, we gathered at Keats House Museum in Hampstead for the purpose of exploring Keats’s legacy through drawing. Made possible by generous funding from BARS’s… Read more »
The BARS Blog is the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the UK’s leading national organisation for promoting the study of Romanticism. The blog is maintained by… Read more »