Organizer: Yu-Hung Tien (University of Edinburgh, UK) In 2023, BARS ran a Digital Event titled “The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia.” Featuring speakers based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and… 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 »
The opportunity afforded by the 2024 BARS Open Fellowship dovetailed with the incubation year of a new initiative called The Race and Regency Lab and its first project “Trust in… 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 »
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 »
In June 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person research day… Read more »
The British Association for Romantic Studies is looking to expand its provision for members in the years between its international conferences by running a series of one-day digital symposia, beginning… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that the most recent double issue of the Review is now available. https://www.bars.ac.uk/review/index.php/barsreview/issue/view/19 – This issue comprises 14 reviews in total and a spotlight section on ‘Romanticism Abroad’…. Read more »