📖 Less than one week to go until our next Virtual Book Club!
📕 Next up is Mansfield Park on 13 June, with Emma following in July!
🏡 You can also join us on 18 July for BOOK CLUB LIVE! - an in-person edition of book club fuelled by tea and cake!
🎟️ buff.ly/3v8vyar

A reminder that our own Annise Rogers will be talking on Blake and Milton's Samson Agonistes in the final presentation for our Spring/Summer series, In Conversation.

You can find more details and join up at globalblake.com/events

🚨 Funded PhD opportunity on Robert Burns and Freemasonry🚨 University of Glasgow

Info here: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5300

If you're an aspiring writer of historical non-fiction, this is the event for you! ⬇️

bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5298

Reminder: Registration for the Shelley Conf closes on 13th June - sign up below!

New on the blog!! ✨ Conference CFP alert: 'Robert Wedderburn and the “Red and Black Atlantic”: Radicalism, Insurrection, Anti-Slavery'. See the post for more details 👇👇

bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5289

Send us observational snippets related to your (or others’) literary travels & archival visits! Interesting objects, scenery &/architecture—we’d love to showcase them all in our Public Commonplace Book Vol.2 & interactive Star Chart 💫

Registration for the Shelley Conference closes NEXT WEEK! Book your place now to join us at Keats House, London, 28-29 June: theshelleyconference.com/registration/

Registration will close at 6pm on 13 June, or sooner if sold out. We have just a few tickets left; join us!

Don't forget to register for 'Celebrating the Research of Professor Mary Hammond: Reading History in the Long Nineteenth Century', featuring a keynote from our very own Prof. Katie Halsey!

Wed. 12 June, online and in person University of Southampton

Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampton-…

Come join us on #Discord !

#Romantic #Romantic ism #PhD #PGR #ECR #Academia #Student #Postdoc

🎉Exciting news: our new BARS Postgraduate and Early Career Discord Group has been launched! 🎉
We hope to create a welcoming, friendly space for PGRs and ECRs to network, make friends, and ask advice!
Sign up at the link below⤵️

REMINDER: Closes today at midnight!

REMINDER: EOI due on 3rd June!

🪶 Role Advertisements: BARS PGR and ECR Representatives 2024–2026 🪶
We are currently inviting applications for appointment to the roles of Postgraduate Representative and Early Career Representative for BARS.
For more information: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5239

❗️Call for Applications: BARS Communications Assistant 2024-25 ❗️
The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) would like to invite applications for a Communications Assistant to assist with the BARS Blog and social media. More info: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5279

Our next late event focuses on the women who lived at Wentworth Place. Come along to meet Fanny Keats, take part in craft activities, and hear a tour and talk! A ticket also includes entry to our exhibition #HiddenHistories eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-night-k…

Tomorrow (Friday 31 May) is the application deadline for the Society's Centenary and Marshall PhD Fellowships, 2024-25 bit.ly/49UVvOg

The Fellowships provide 6-months' support for completion of a #History PhD and are held jointly with Institute of Historical Research #twitterstorians

Today's picture: Lady Byron's wedding pelisse, now at Fashion Museum Bath.

Hobhouse, the best man, described it as 'A muslin gown trimmed with lace at the bottom, with a white muslin curricle jacket, very plain indeed, with nothing on her head'