British Association for Romantic Studies

Queer British History – 1714 to 1785 YouTube video by HistoricalAssocUK

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

[PDS Award] Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: from Nineteenth Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [PDS Award] Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: from Nineteenth Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAP...

Please see below for a fantastic funded PhD in 19c literature with Clara Dawson at the University of Manchester - deadline 18 March 2026:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... [findaphd.com]

EMCO Internship Programme A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte...

@bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

We'll see how much of my uni work I get done today!

5 Wordsworthian ideas for World Book Day costumes:
‘Immortality Ode’: dress up as your father
Leech Gatherer
A daffodil
A mountain complete with a tiny Wordsworth freaking out in a toy boat
Find 4 friends and go round in a group telling everyone ‘we are seven’

My illustration skills are non-existent, but I am very tempted to collab with you on a blog post and draw costume designs for each of these.... -Chloe

Screenshot of the BARS Digital Events Youtube channel. The most recent 2 videos are titled Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth and Romantic Creativity Roundtable.

If you missed our digital events on 'Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth' and 'Romantic Creativity', you can catch up on the Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...

See previous blog posts for further inspo: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/

Poster for BARS blog ideas. You can write about: Wuthering Heights and Romanticism; Why are there so many Austen adaptations this year; 200 years of Blake's Job; 5 world book day ideas.

📝 Fancy writing for our blog? Here are some ideas we would LOVE for you to write about this month!

Email us at britishassociationromantic@gmail.com if you're interested. We'd love to hear from writers at ANY stage of their careers!!

Poster for the 'Reviving the Liberal' digital event explaining that speakers Serena Baiesi, Will Bowers, Greg Kucich, Diego Saglia, Maria Schoina, and Alessia Testori will discuss their research on and editing of the Romantic-era periodical The Liberal.

🚨 Next BARS Digital Event: 'Reviving "The Liberal": Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23', 11th March, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET 🗞️📰

Register for free: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Amazing, yes please!! Send us an email (britishassociationromantic@gmail.com) if you haven't already (this is Chloe typing; Amy does the emails!)

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WE NEED YOU!
Would anyone like to do a review of Series 4 of Bridgerton for the BARS Blog?

Does the current series tie into any tropes of the Romantic-era novel?
How often do masquerade balls happen in Romantic-period works?

Drop us a message or email us!

Event & Book Launch: Finding Elizabeth Hitchener (1783–1821) (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Hosted by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and Notre Dame London, the launch is taking place on Wednesday 18 March 2026, 5:45pm.

Please register here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2026/...

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Advert for assistant editor post

Gothic Studies is recruiting! We seek a new assistant editor 🧛‍♂️

A great project with super guidance from the editors, inc. image sourcing! Strongly recommend!

John Keats Bicentennial - The Allen Ginsberg Project ‘John Keats on his deathbed, at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome – drawing by Joseph Severn – The inscription at the bottom is in Severn’s hand, and reads (in partial shorthand): ’28 Janry 3 o’clock mng. Dra...

@bars.bsky.social - Anniversary today, Feb 23, of the death of John Keats - allenginsberg.org/2021/02/t-f-...

Call for Papers: Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR Conference
Friday 26th June 2026
Edge Hill University

For more info and the full CfP see the BARS Blog link⤵️
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6343

Call for Contributors!

Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830.

We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

New on the BARS Blog!

BARS Stephen Copley Research Award Report: Jenny Tattersall on Dissenting Women Teachers (the Belfast presbyterian educationalists Martha McTier (1742 – 1837) and Mary Ann McCracken (1770 – 1866).

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6321

New on the BARS Blog!

Five Questions: @jodielmarley.bsky.social on William Blake’s Mysticism
Her first monograph, which we discuss below, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309

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Romantic Adaptations: Situating del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)

In this post, we welcome @jodielmarley.bsky.social back to the BARS blog to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s recent adaptation of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, and Mia Goth.

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278

Exciting event announcement! ⤵️

Call for Papers: 'Scotland and the In-Between', the annual Société française d’études écossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) conference (Université de Lorraine, 12-14 Nov 2026).

Proposals for papers in French or English are due 28th April.

More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6338

Registration for the conference will open in March. Bursaries will remain open for applications until registration opens. Applicants will be informed of the outcome soon afterwards. (2/2)

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for the BARS Conference 2026. Applicants should now have been informed whether their proposal has been accepted. If you submitted a paper and have not heard back, please get in touch using the conference email address (bars2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk)(1/2)

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Fellowship Opportunity!

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

Save the dates for our upcoming #RSVPDigiEvents! More details will be shared as dates approach (so watch this space!). Registration links for each of these events can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: rs4vp.org/digital-even... Hope to "see" you there!

Annual lecture | The Centre for Victorian Studies | University of Leicester Find out more about our latest annual public lecture, hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester

I'm giving the Leicester Victorian Studies Annual Lecture next week!
Come along and explore fame, race, and disability in the 19th c
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Upcoming symposium: 'Uses of Romanticism' at University College Cork, 18-19 Feb 2026

This symposium will explore the uses and relevance of the term 'Romanticism'. More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6312