{"id":9,"date":"2013-08-04T17:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:59:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the UK&#8217;s leading national organization for promoting the study of Romanticism.\u00a0 Founded in 1989, BARS acts as a hub for scholarship by organising and supporting conferences, disseminating news and events, providing bursaries and prizes to early career researchers, publishing a Bulletin, and establishing links with sister organizations.\u00a0 It also provides a voice for the subject area both within and beyond higher education.\u00a0 More information on the society can be found on the main site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\">www.bars.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is maintained by the society in order to share news and information about developments in the field.\u00a0 It is edited by Amy Wilcockson (<a href=\"mailto:britishassociationromantic@gmail.com\">britishassociationromantic@gmail.com<\/a>), who would be happy to hear about Romanticism-related events and from potential contributors, particularly people who would like to write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?cat=16\">conference reports<\/a> or submit ideas for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?cat=17\">On This Day<\/a> series.\u00a0The ongoing Five Questions interview series is curated by Matthew Sangster (<a href=\"mailto:matthew.sangster@glasgow.ac.uk\">matthew.sangster@glasgow.ac.uk<\/a>), who would be glad to hear from people with new books or projects that they&#8217;d like to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the UK&#8217;s leading national organization for promoting the study of Romanticism.\u00a0 Founded in 1989, BARS acts as a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?page_id=9\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}