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The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Nov 11
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!
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jodielmarley.bsky.social
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...
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
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bho.bsky.social
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
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
bars.bsky.social
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
Conference Announcement: Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference, 17 January 2026 – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
bars.bsky.social
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
BARS President’s Fellowship 2025 Report: Suchitra Choudhury on ‘Thingy Romanticism: Indian objects in Romantic-period visual satire’ – BARS Blog
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December 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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womanofclouds.bsky.social
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...
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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abdavis.bsky.social
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
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willsherwood.bsky.social
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
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abdavis.bsky.social
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
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December 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
bars.bsky.social
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
CfP: NAVSA-NASSR 2026 Conference – ‘Traffic’ – BARS Blog
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December 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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adamneikirk.bsky.social
Happening tomorrow! Don't forget to register!
bars.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18d
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...
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
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long18thsem.bsky.social
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/...
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
bars.bsky.social
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...
Screenshot of the BARS Digital Events Youtube channel. The most recent two videos are 'Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley' and 'Volcanic Romanticism'.
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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drbeard79.bsky.social
Sharing this lovely feedback 🖤from yesterday’s Romantic Creativity roundtable to inspire you (yes, YOU) to come along to next week’s workshop - I’m planning to take up Kate Singer’s suggestion of writing an encomium to an engaged student - what will you write?
Zoom chat from Amy 14:33 This has been the most unexpectedly perfect demonstration of Romantic creativity I've ever witnessed. I usually find Romantic literature a bit distant, but today the speakers made it playful, engaging, and surprisingly relevant. And honestly, the unintentional moments only heightened the experience. Romanticism loves the collapse between the sublime A and the ridiculous, and today we actually lived that arc in real time. Great presentation! Thank you.
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
bars.bsky.social
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...
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 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
bars.bsky.social
CfP: Networks of Antiquity, University of Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2026

Abstracts due 31st January!
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6237
CfP poster: "The antiquarian networks of the eighteenth century and Romantic era contributed to a fascinating constellation of multicultural, multilingual, exchange across the globe. The study of antiquarianism was a vastly popular pastime and scholarly pursuit in Europe, especially as a way of mapping ancient world cultures, religions, and politics onto contemporary society. The circulation of knowledge within local, national, and global networks paradoxically consolidated independent national exceptionalisms, as well as contributing to a budding multicultural globalism. Texts such as James Macpherson’s “Fragments of Ancient Poetry” (1763) prompted a revival of vernacular traditions across the British Isles like ballad imitations and Norse translations, while the establishment of the Society of Antiquaries in Britain encouraged the circulation and study of material culture. With the various inventive reimaginations of world mythologies, and as an oppressive vehicle for European imperial agendas, the study of vernacular antiquities during the long eighteenth century formed the critical foundations of contemporary worldviews via the lens of the past. Pre-dating Herder’s thesis about “Volksgeist, ” these antiquarian practices already constituted a rewriting of histories, memories, and cultures, and brought to the fore questions of heritage, identity, empire, trade, as well as the value ascribed to language. Through this global trade of antiquity in all its forms—material, textual, visual—both national and local European perspectives were brought into dialogue with alternate histories and the legacy of bygone eras. Networks of Antiquity is a two-day interdisciplinary conference held in person and in English at the University of Copenhagen. It aims to bring together scholars of Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, and Reception Studies to examine how antiquarian networks across Europe and beyond created porous cultural borders during the long eighteenth century." Poster: "We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that consider how European communities, networks, and individuals of the long eighteenth century engaged with antiquarian studies and cultural contexts regarding and those external to their own geographical borders. PAPERS MAY EXPLORE TOPICS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Circuits of communication, letters, and objects Material culture and its popular or localised consumption Antiquarianism and visual culture Nordic antiquity, Northern antiquarianism, the Gothic The relationship and tensions between (neo-)Classical antiquity and vernacular traditions National vs local networks, the circulation of knowledge production Recollecting, reconstituting, and reinventing the past Adaptations and appropriations The Antiquarian as a figure/character Antiquarian Spaces: The Society of Antiquaries, libraries, museums, private vs. public exchange Exchange and Encounters: Transatlantic, Anglo-Nordic, Asiatic, etc. Geographies of antiquity, landscapes, scientific antiquarian travel Empire, trade, race, imperial and postcolonial perspectives Antiquarianism as a literary form and genre Stadial theory, Translation theory, Reception Studies, Memory Studies TO APPLY Please submit a 250-word abstract and 150-word biography to Sharon Choe (sharon.choe@hum.ku.dk) with the subject line : Networks of Antiquity Conference Submission. We are keen to encourage the participation of PhDs, early career researchers, and scholars on precarious employment contracts, and so will be offering bursaries to contribute towards travel to and accommodation in Copenhagen. Priority will be given to those without access to institutional financial support or external grant funding. To be considered for a bursary, please also provide a short 100-word application alongside your proposal, including your current institutional position and any research projects. Application deadline : 31 January 2026 Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 10 February 2026"
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
bars.bsky.social
Resource announcement: 'Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809'

The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235
Resource Announcement: ‘Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809’ – BARS Blog
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December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
bars.bsky.social
CfP: International Association of Byron Societies Conference, Keele University, 20th-24th July 2026

Abstracts on the theme 'Every thing by turns and nothing long' due 22nd January
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6233
CfP: International Association of Byron Studies Conference – BARS Blog
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December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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drbeard79.bsky.social
Looking forward to this event later today - even though my talk is really 3 unrelated ideas in a Trenchcoat - something something isn’t that how Romantic creativity has always worked?
bars.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Nov 19
🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable

8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT

6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social

More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228
BARS Digital Event: “Romantic Creativity” Roundtable – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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devenparker.bsky.social
A little write up about the Mitchell Library's 'Performing 19th-Century Glasgow' exhibition from this past autumn! Featuring an 1839 Ira Aldridge playbill. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/fa...
Performing Nineteenth-Century Glasgow - Glasgow Life
Glasgow Theatre Mitchell Library collections
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December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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essaka.bsky.social
Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Disability and the Gothic
www.cambridge.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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drreznicek.bsky.social
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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willsherwood.bsky.social
FREE TICKETS LEFT FOR TONIGHT'S TOLKIEN & BYRON TALK!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pleasu...

@bars.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @tolkiensociety.org #Tolkien #Byron #MiddleEarth #LotR #Hobbit #Romantic #Romanticism #Books #Reading
The Pleasure of the Perilous Woods: Byron’s Literary and Cultural Legacies
The Byron Society hosts Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow), whose talk charts the impact of Lord Byron on J.R.R Tolkien.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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ksaacomm.bsky.social
Have you interacted with someone on Romanticist Bluesky whose TBR you want to shamelessly peruse? We are continuing the "What Are You Reading?" #KSAABlog series soon! If you'd like to be featured or have someone in mind, DM us! In the meantime, read past features here: www.k-saa.org/blog/tag/Wha...
What Are You Reading? — Keats-Shelley Association Blog — K-SAA
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December 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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adamneikirk.bsky.social
In 1 week! We now have SEVEN speakers, so come along!
bars.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Nov 19
🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable

8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT

6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social

More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228
BARS Digital Event: “Romantic Creativity” Roundtable – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
bars.bsky.social
Final reminder before we stop spamming your Bluesky feed: THE DEADLINE IS TODAY!
bars.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Nov 18
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025

Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM