How to Join
BARS memberships run from 1st January to 31st December each year. Subscriptions are due on January 1st, regardless of the month of joining BARS. The annual subscription costs £37 (Waged) or £17 (Postgraduate/Retired/Part-Time or Impermanent Position/Unwaged). BARS also has an optional Sustaining Membership subscription at £57 per year. If you would like to make a larger regular donation to BARS, subscribing at the Sustaining Membership level will help a great deal with supporting additional fellowships and with BARS’s financial planning.
Members will be subscribed to the BARS Electronic Mailbase, will be eligible for BARS funding in the form of grants and bursaries and can attend BARS International Conferences, Early Career and Postgraduate Conferences and other events that the association organises. BARS dues support the open-access publication of The BARS Review and BARS’s continuing work connecting Romanticists in Britain, Europe, the United States, Australasia and the wider world.
New members may pay using the PayPal links below; you will receive an email from the BARS Membership Secretary, Dr Yimon Lo, once your subscription fee has been received. If you are a new member who would like to pay using a cheque, standing order, banker’s order or an online bank transfer, please contact the Membership Secretary by email: bars.memberships@gmail.com.
Current members renewing their subscriptions can use any of the payment methods listed below.
Payment Options
PayPal/Credit Card
You can subscribe or renew your subscription using PayPal. You can either make payments separately each year using single payments, or you can set up a recurring annual subscription that will debit your card or account every year on the date that you set it up. Recurring subscriptions or one-off payments can be made using PayPal or with the ‘Pay with Credit or Debit Card’ option after clicking through. To set up a recurring payment without a PayPal account, see the section ‘Standing Orders, Banker’s Orders and Online Payments’ below.
The BARS subscription year begins on January 1st, so if possible, we prefer recurring subscriptions to be set up around this date. If you'd like to subscribe to BARS later in a year, we ask that you use one of the single payment options below and then set up a recurring payment for the next year at a time between December 1st and January 31st.
Recurring Subscription: Waged - £37 per year
Please click this link to access a page with the Waged subscription button.
Recurring Subscription: Postgraduate/Retired/Part-Time or Impermanent Position/Unwaged - £17 per year
Please click this link to access a page with the Concessions subscription button.
Recurring Subscription: Sustaining Membership - £57 per year
Please click this link to access a page with the Sustaining subscription button.
Single Payment: Waged - £37
Single Payment: Postgraduate/Retired/Part-Time or Impermanent Position/Unwaged – Single Payment - £17
Single Payment: Sustaining Membership - £57
Standing Orders, Bankers' Orders and Online Payments
If you wish to pay your BARS membership with a bank transfer (Standing Order, Banker’s Order, Online Payment), please contact the BARS Treasurer, bars.treasurer@gmail.com, who will send you the necessary details to set up a payment.
Cheques
Alternatively, subscriptions may be renewed with cheques made payable to ‘British Association for Romantic Studies’. Please contact Yimon Lo (bars.memberships@gmail.com) if a cheque is the only viable payment option for you.
In 2023, the Executive Committees of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) collectively took the decision to terminate the BARS-NASSR Bundled Membership scheme. For further information on payment refunds and standing order cancellations, please visit the NASSR website or contact NASSR. To continue subscribing to BARS, please use the links below.<
Donating to BARS
If you would like to make a donation to support the work of BARS, please use the form below, entering an amount that you would like to give and clicking on the button to make a payment using PayPal or by card.
Your Data
Your data (name and email address) will only be used for the purposes of the BARS membership record, mailing list, and other member communications. We will never give your data to third parties. When you join using PayPal, the email address you use will be added to our Mailing List. You can contact our Membership Secretary to request that your email address not be added or that we use a different email address to contact you. Every email from BARS will include an option to unsubscribe from the mailing list. You can ask us to delete your data at any time.