British Association for Romantic Studies
@bars.bsky.social
The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
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Hello again to everyone on BlueSky!
We're the British Association for Romantic Studies & we promote the study of Romanticism & the history and culture of the period from which it emerged.
We organise conferences, circulate news, award fellowships, support PGRs & ECRs, publish a review & much more!
We're the British Association for Romantic Studies & we promote the study of Romanticism & the history and culture of the period from which it emerged.
We organise conferences, circulate news, award fellowships, support PGRs & ECRs, publish a review & much more!
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BLAKETY BLAKE! Wed 21 Jan, 19:30 (UK) on zoom. A new heaven is begun: the Eternal Hell revives! It must be the return of the world’s greatest (and only?) William Blake online quiz! This free event will emphasise fun and enthusiasm over academic prowess. Join us!
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January 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
BLAKETY BLAKE! Wed 21 Jan, 19:30 (UK) on zoom. A new heaven is begun: the Eternal Hell revives! It must be the return of the world’s greatest (and only?) William Blake online quiz! This free event will emphasise fun and enthusiasm over academic prowess. Join us!
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blakesociety.org/product/the-...
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Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
#18thCentury #18C #18thC
New network: The Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network, based at the University of York (@cecs-york.bsky.social)
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273
January 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
New network: The Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network, based at the University of York (@cecs-york.bsky.social)
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273
On the blog: a whole host of notices and calls for papers from the Byron Society! Including the Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, the Student Byron Conference in Missolonghi, and the International Byron Conference in Keele.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6271
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6271
Notices and CfPs from the Byron Society – BARS Blog
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January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
On the blog: a whole host of notices and calls for papers from the Byron Society! Including the Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, the Student Byron Conference in Missolonghi, and the International Byron Conference in Keele.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6271
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6271
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Join us as we talk about our favourite Minerva novels (and do our best to convince everyone to read them)!
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Join us as we talk about our favourite Minerva novels (and do our best to convince everyone to read them)!
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New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
January 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Walking with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
January 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Walking with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
Many thanks to those of you who have already joined BARS in 2026! If you would still like to renew your membership, please see the friendly reminder below for details on how to do so!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6253
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6253
January 10, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Many thanks to those of you who have already joined BARS in 2026! If you would still like to renew your membership, please see the friendly reminder below for details on how to do so!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6253
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6253
Reminder: deadline for submitted applications is 12 Jan!!
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
January 10, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Reminder: deadline for submitted applications is 12 Jan!!
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Out today! Thanks to everyone who has inspired and supported me over the 12 years I’ve been researching and writing this book. Published open access by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social so the ebook can be downloaded for free www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
January 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Out today! Thanks to everyone who has inspired and supported me over the 12 years I’ve been researching and writing this book. Published open access by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social so the ebook can be downloaded for free www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Came back from Xmas break to a wonderful surprise on the doorstep - my first piece of bona fide #gamestudies writing in print - my chapter on Kind Words (2019) in The #18thCentury Today - edited by @maddypelling.bsky.social and Emrys Jones
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Came back from Xmas break to a wonderful surprise on the doorstep - my first piece of bona fide #gamestudies writing in print - my chapter on Kind Words (2019) in The #18thCentury Today - edited by @maddypelling.bsky.social and Emrys Jones
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
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🎺NEW BLOG POST🎺
'Romantic Transformations: The Ornithological Imagination in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Dickinson'
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@bars.bsky.social @emilydickinson.bsky.social
'Romantic Transformations: The Ornithological Imagination in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Dickinson'
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@bars.bsky.social @emilydickinson.bsky.social
Romantic Transformations, Part 2: The Ornithological Imagination in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Dickinson
Over the past term I have had the joy of teaching the poetry of Emily Dickinson. As a long-time fan of Apple TV+’s Dickinson (2019-2021), I was thrilled to have an excuse to play Ella Hunt…
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December 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🎺NEW BLOG POST🎺
'Romantic Transformations: The Ornithological Imagination in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Dickinson'
will-sherwood.com/2025/12/30/r...
@bars.bsky.social @emilydickinson.bsky.social
'Romantic Transformations: The Ornithological Imagination in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Dickinson'
will-sherwood.com/2025/12/30/r...
@bars.bsky.social @emilydickinson.bsky.social
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one last post before Xmas break: my monograph, William Blake's Mysticism, is due out on 2nd January!
I'll promote it properly in the new year as I'm still tired & sick, but looking forward to starting 2026 with a flourish 🌠
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
I'll promote it properly in the new year as I'm still tired & sick, but looking forward to starting 2026 with a flourish 🌠
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
William Blake’s Mysticism
This book examines William Blake as a mystic and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition during and after his lifetime
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December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
one last post before Xmas break: my monograph, William Blake's Mysticism, is due out on 2nd January!
I'll promote it properly in the new year as I'm still tired & sick, but looking forward to starting 2026 with a flourish 🌠
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
I'll promote it properly in the new year as I'm still tired & sick, but looking forward to starting 2026 with a flourish 🌠
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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New in the Cambridge Elements series, and free to read and download until 15 January:
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
by Hilary E. Wyss.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#History #DigitalHistory
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
by Hilary E. Wyss.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#History #DigitalHistory
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Cambridge Core - Evolutionary Biology - The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
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December 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New in the Cambridge Elements series, and free to read and download until 15 January:
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
by Hilary E. Wyss.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#History #DigitalHistory
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
by Hilary E. Wyss.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#History #DigitalHistory
Conference Announcement: Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow
Jan 17 from 10am to 4pm GMT
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6257
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow
Jan 17 from 10am to 4pm GMT
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6257
Conference Announcement: Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference, 17 January 2026 – BARS Blog
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December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Conference Announcement: Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow
Jan 17 from 10am to 4pm GMT
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6257
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow
Jan 17 from 10am to 4pm GMT
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6257
New on the blog: BARS President’s Fellowship 2025 Report
Suchitra Choudhury on ‘Thingy Romanticism: Indian objects in Romantic-period visual satire’
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6217
Suchitra Choudhury on ‘Thingy Romanticism: Indian objects in Romantic-period visual satire’
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6217
BARS President’s Fellowship 2025 Report: Suchitra Choudhury on ‘Thingy Romanticism: Indian objects in Romantic-period visual satire’ – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New on the blog: BARS President’s Fellowship 2025 Report
Suchitra Choudhury on ‘Thingy Romanticism: Indian objects in Romantic-period visual satire’
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6217
Suchitra Choudhury on ‘Thingy Romanticism: Indian objects in Romantic-period visual satire’
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6217
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I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱
Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱
Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
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ICYMI, our BARS Digital Event on the publication of Volume 4 of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley is available on the @bars.bsky.social Digital Events YouTube channel: youtu.be/7PFIDJtb2rQ?... ✨️
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
ICYMI, our BARS Digital Event on the publication of Volume 4 of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley is available on the @bars.bsky.social Digital Events YouTube channel: youtu.be/7PFIDJtb2rQ?... ✨️
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I'm trying to find an article where a scholar argues that the ruins of #Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are metaphors for his own biographical/embodied ruination. I found it back in 2022/3 but cannot find it anywhere. HELP!! @bars.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @ksaacomm.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm trying to find an article where a scholar argues that the ruins of #Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are metaphors for his own biographical/embodied ruination. I found it back in 2022/3 but cannot find it anywhere. HELP!! @bars.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @ksaacomm.bsky.social
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Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
www.mhra.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Call for Papers: @navsa.bsky.social/NASSR 2026 Conference on 'Traffic' in the long nineteenth-century.
Abstracts are due on 15th Feb. The conference will be in Pasadena, CA on 11-16th Nov 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6251
Abstracts are due on 15th Feb. The conference will be in Pasadena, CA on 11-16th Nov 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6251
CfP: NAVSA-NASSR 2026 Conference – ‘Traffic’ – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
December 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Call for Papers: @navsa.bsky.social/NASSR 2026 Conference on 'Traffic' in the long nineteenth-century.
Abstracts are due on 15th Feb. The conference will be in Pasadena, CA on 11-16th Nov 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6251
Abstracts are due on 15th Feb. The conference will be in Pasadena, CA on 11-16th Nov 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6251
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Happening tomorrow! Don't forget to register!
Following on from our Roundtable, join us for our BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Workshop!
Mon Dec 15, 4pm-5:30pm GMT
This creative writing workshop will reflect critically on key ideas delivered by the speakers from the previous session.
Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bars-digit...
Mon Dec 15, 4pm-5:30pm GMT
This creative writing workshop will reflect critically on key ideas delivered by the speakers from the previous session.
Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital: Romantic Creativity Workshop
This creative writing workshop reflects critically on key ideas delivered by the six speakers from the previous session.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happening tomorrow! Don't forget to register!
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WINTER Term Card:
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
WINTER Term Card:
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you missed our digital events on 'Volcanic Romanticism' or 'Shelley's Anni Mirabiles', don't worry! You can catch up on the BARS Digital Events Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...
www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you missed our digital events on 'Volcanic Romanticism' or 'Shelley's Anni Mirabiles', don't worry! You can catch up on the BARS Digital Events Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...
www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...