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To celebrate ten years of the BARS Blog in August 2023, we asked the Blog’s founder, Matthew Sangster, for a few words on the origins of the blog! Matthew created… Read more »

It was on board the tantalisingly named Hercules that Byron left Italy and sailed for Greece to join the fight for independence. Britain had responded to the war back in… Read more »

Here we have the latest report from Yu-Hung Tien, the most recent winner of the Stephen Copley Research Awards, for more information about how to apply, please see here. I’d firstly… Read more »

August 15-18, 2024 Georgetown University, Washington D.C. We convene the 30th Annual NASSR Conference in Washington D.C., a city that witnessed on January 6, 2021 an insurrection, which Padma Rangarajan… Read more »

9th September 2023 In October 1849, the poet John Clare wrote to his son Charles from Northampton asylum about all the things he was missing back in Northborough, and in Helpston,… Read more »

Hi all,  The Year’s Work in English Studies (published by Oxford UP, sponsored by the English Association) is searching for a contributor to cover Romantic drama (1780-1830) for the upcoming edition (2022… Read more »

The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) would like to invite applications for a Communications Assistant to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year… Read more »

Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022. In keeping with the… Read more »

Postgraduates and early career scholars working in the area of Romanticism/those working on the expansive era the Romantic period covered are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award.  … Read more »

Following the recent BARS Executive elections, the details of the incoming members are now available on the BARS website:  Our thanks to all who stood for election, and those who… Read more »