Monthly Archives: July 2014

By Anthony Mandal The first edition of Bannerman’s Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (1802) contained an erotic engraving of a naked Venus figure, which was declared ‘offensive to decency’ by… Read more »

By Anthony Mandal Proposals are invited for the 2015 British Association for Romantic Studies international conference which will be held at Cardiff University, Wales (UK) on 16–19 July 2015. The… Read more »

By mwils31 The project that I am currently working on for the William Blake Archive is the Descriptive Catalogue of Blake’s work for his exhibition in Soho in 1809. This… Read more »

By admin Laura Kirkley is currently a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Newcastle University. She completed her PhD at Trinity Hall in Cambridge, writing an interdisciplinery thesis focusing on Mary… Read more »

By Eric Loy By Margaret Speer A couple of weeks ago, in a carpe diem moment of this, my last summer as an undergraduate bum, I found myself in the… Read more »

By Laura Whitebell I’ve always been a fan of those “On This Day” features you often see in newspapers and now online. This is probably picked up from my Dad… Read more »