The BARS Executive Committee established the Stephen Copley bursary scheme in order to support postgraduate and early-career research within the UK. The bursaries primarily fund expenses incurred through travel to… Read more »
In December 2024 I received the fantastic news that I had been awarded a Stephen Copley award by BARS, allowing me to travel to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to… 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 »
This August I was thrilled to be able to make a much-needed trip to London, with the aim of viewing several collections related to my doctoral research, thanks to the… Read more »
In May 2024, I had the privilege of travelling to the National Library of Ireland (NLI) in Dublin to conduct research within their extensive archives, examining the work of Irish women… Read more »
I’ve just returned from the most wonderful week visiting Orkney Library and Archive in Kirkwall, during which I spent valuable time with books and manuscripts essential to my Masters dissertation… Read more »
The Stephen Copley Research Award helped me spend the last summer in Leeds, exploring valuable long-eighteenth-century archival resources located at the special collections in the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds…. Read more »
With the help of the Stephen Copley Award, I was able to spend several days in London, at the National Archives in Kew. This had a positive impact on my… Read more »
As I write this, the smoothly carved Oxfordshire countryside ripples by, the deep green grass ablaze under the gleaming sun after what has been a rather moody winter in Oxford…. Read more »
Italy and the Irish Romantics: Networks, Nations, and Literary Encounters 1798-1848 My doctoral project explores the literary connections between Italy and Ireland in the fifty years spanning the 1798 United… Read more »