The judges of the BARS 2026 First Book Prize received a large number of excellent nominations for this year’s prize. Discriminating amongst such a strong field was necessarily very challenging… Read more »
Lucy Andrew discusses how she transformed Austen’s Harriet Smith into a feisty detective in her new novel A Very Vexing Murder. As a huge fan of both Jane Austen and… Read more »
Dr Hannah Wilson discusses 2026’s excess of Regency adaptations and reworkings, and discusses why this is a bumper year for Austen. The BBC’s recent TV adaptation of Janice Hadlow’s The… Read more »
This roundtable brings a variety of topics in science and medicine together and seeks to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the intersection of literature, science, and medicine during the… Read more »
The Open Graves, Open Minds research group’s 3-day conference Sea Changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river at the British Library and online was a… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open. Please see the conference website for details of registration… Read more »
Liverpool John Moores UniversityOutlineNineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studiesand the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is… Read more »
The future of Rydal Mount, the final home of world-renowned poet William Wordsworth, has been secured thanks to a landmark acquisition by the Wordsworth Trust, working in partnership with The… Read more »
> The University of Edinburgh, Scotland > 28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July The 14th instalment of the International Walter Scott conference returns… Read more »
ASSISTANT/PHD POSITION IN BRITISH OR AMERICAN LITERATURE (100%) STARTING DATE: 1 AUGUST 2026 The Institute of English Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is looking to hire a full-time… Read more »