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 »
The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh holds the largest collection of Byron’s papers as part of the John Murray Archive. It was a wonderful joy to be able to… Read more »
I was thrilled to find out I’d won a Stephen Copley Award to support a research trip to Belfast. As part of a wider project tracing the influence of Anna… Read more »
During the summer of 2025, as part of my Stephen Copley Research Award, I was able to further investigate the friendship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Hebrew scholar Hyman… Read more »
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 »