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 »
Dear BARS, As we announced at the General Meeting in Glasgow and when we circulated the members’ survey earlier this year, BARS is currently in a position where it needs… Read more »
Tuesday 3rd June 202509:00 – 18:00Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham)No registration fees https://19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centurylegacies On Tuesday 3rd June Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of… Read more »
Dear All, We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2025 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career and Postgraduate Researcher Conference, Romantic (Un)Consciousness. A copy of the provisional… Read more »
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 »