Follow Laura Blunsden on Twitter. Thanks to the support of the BARS Stephen Copley Research Award, I was able to visit the manuscript archives at the British Library in London… Read more »
We received a number of very high quality applications for the BARS Communications Assistant 2022-23 position. The Executive Committee are delighted to announce that there will be two new Assistants… Read more »
Editors: James Rovira and Julian Knox The editors welcome chapter proposals for the forthcoming anthology Romanticism and Heavy Metal. Like the collections Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to… Read more »
Below, we discuss the Summer 2022 special issue of Studies in Romanticism, guest-edited by Jeremy Davies and entitled An Inventive Age: Writing of the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1830. The contributors are… Read more »
We are delighted to publish this report by Gerard Lee McKeever, the latest winner of the Scottish Romanticism Research Award. Postgraduates and postdoctoral scholars working in any area of Scottish… Read more »
In June 2020, the British Association for Romantic Studies announced its unequivocal support of the Black community, its condemnation of all forms of racism and its commitment to practical action…. Read more »
The BARS ‘On This Day’ Blog series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Want to contribute a future post? Get in touch. The BARS ‘On… Read more »
Given the reliance of so many Romanticism scholars on digital research throughout the pandemic, it felt like a good time to update this list of online resources from 2020. This… Read more »
This roundtable, Poetic Form and Biological Form, addressed the explosion of experimental ideas about form in literature and the natural sciences in the Romantic period, seeking to generate insight and… Read more »
Online, interdisciplinary conference 12th and 13th September 2022 The long-eighteenth century was a time of continual transformation. In the two hundred years between 1650 and 1850, rapid urbanisation turned small… Read more »