The Jane Austen Society of the UK (registered charity number 1200422 – https://janeaustensociety.org.uk/) will be celebrating this important anniversary in 2025. One of the events which the Society is hosting is… Read more »
The Scarlet Thread of Murder. An Album of Victorian Murderers. Moving from the Newgate Novel tradition at the beginning of the 19th century, through De Quincey’s aesthetic musings on the… Read more »
In addition to our existing funding schemes, BARS launched a new initiative in 2024: the Open Fellowship, which is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at… 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. In… Read more »
We received a number of very high quality applications for the BARS Digital Events Officer position for the next election cycle. The Executive Committee are delighted to announce that the… Read more »
Eighteenth-Century Plant Studies This projected volume is a collection of interdisciplinary humanities essays on how plants were perceived, represented and understood in the long eighteenth century, with special attention to… Read more »
“The Years That Followed”: The Afterlives of Lord Byron In the year after the poet’s bicentenary, the 2025 International Byron Conference to be held in Pisa (30 June – 5… Read more »
2025 Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism (GER)Negotiations of Value in the Romantic Age25-28 September 2025Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Campus Erlangen) Keynote Speakers:David Duff (London), Michelle Faubert (Manitoba), Joanna Rostek… Read more »
14-15 July 2025, Parliament Hall, St Andrews ‘Tis sixty years since’ 2025 marks sixty years since the founding of Forum for Modern Language Studies in 1965. To celebrate, review, and renew the… Read more »
Exeter College, University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) In a time of planetary crisis, our understanding of the earth as a whole is… Read more »