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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BARS Digital Event: Returning to John Clare Join BARS for varied discussion focused around the poet, John Clare, including new archival discoveries, editing and class politics, global poetic legacy, and ideas of beauty in his poems. 19 October, 5pm UK Time www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6624

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Call for Proposals: BARS Digital Events Series Autumn Winter 2026-27 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6621 Please share widely!!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Call for Papers: Hogg’s Worlds Now, University of Glasgow, July 2027 Submit your abstracts for this new conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. Deadline for submission 31 December 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6619

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New on the BARS Blog - “Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime by @rjdashwood.bsky.social and @drstephr.bsky.social While the idea of the Austen crime novel might seem odd, crime and romance share some decided similarities... Read more at www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

REMINDER - taking place next Wednesday! BARS Digital Event: THE LAST MAN TODAY Speakers: Young-ok An, Simon Bainbridge, Daniel Cook, Fuson Wang, Omar F Miranda, and Sharon Ruston 16 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (UK time) Register here: uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Call for Applications: The BARS Open Fellowship 2027 The Open Fellowship is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at the forefront of Romantic studies to support research expenses of up to £2000. Closes: Friday 6 November 2026. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6598

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Call for Applications: The BARS President's Fellowship 2027 Open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Closes: Fri 6 Nov 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6597

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Recital: ‘The Romantic Imagination: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Through Poetry and Song’ Wed 21 Oct | St Michael's Church, Highgate. Free admission. More info: www.marcuscoleridge.com/event-detail...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference The University of Edinburgh, Scotland 28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July Website for more info: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

💻 BARS Digital Event Announcement: The Last Man Today 16 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (UK time) Register here: uni-mainz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Call for Papers/Workshops: Romance, Revolution and Reform Conference - Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century @rrrjournal.bsky.social invites submissions for their next conference, which will be at Royal Holloway and online on 15 Jan 2027. Abstracts due 25 Oct 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6580

CfP poster for Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century, 15th January 2027, Royal Holloway, University of London (Hybrid). “We need, urgently, to reconnect with our planet, and recognise ourselves as inseparable rather than special; reliant upon rather than dominating” (Erica
Fudge, 2022)
This conference examines the long nineteenth century as the birth of the Anthropocene. As scientific developments reconfigured what it meant to be human, global ecosystems had already been permanently altered. Fossil fuels, cash crops, forest decimation, and hunger for imperial commodities left scars on ecosystems, communities, and bodies. Artists, exhibitors, and writers found new homes in the bustling ecosystems of steel and smoke, while others sought ‘gleams of a remoter world’ (Shelley, 1816) in pockets of “untouched” nature.
Ecosystems encourage us to reflect on the networks between humans and the “more than human” in the long nineteenth century.
We welcome 15-20 minute papers and creative workshops for our in-person conference. We especially encourage submissions from PGRs and ECRs.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Conference Announcement: The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month! More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578

Cover for The Last Man at 200: Mary Shelley, Postapocalyptic Politics and the Environmental Humanities, edited by Eileen M. Hunt.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#BARS2026 Our academic programme is coming to a close with Prof. Richard Cronin's keynote lecture, ‘Prospect and Retrospect in the Romantic Long Poem’, focusing on Byron and Wordsworth. We've been treated to fantastic keynotes this week!!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We're back for day 2 #BARS2026! What do we mean by a "new original"? How can we continue to celebrate the materiality, marginalia, and notation of archival texts and subsequent editorial work? Thank you to Ruth Abbott for a brilliant talk on the Wordsworths' collaborations through their notebooks!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Our Stephen Copley Lecture is being delivered by the wonderful Mary Favret! How does our work as Romanticists work through the illegible? Are we to be understood by what we have inscribed, or projected? What about those figures of the past, that remain etched on surfaces prone to decay? #BARS2026

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A masterclass in responding to brilliant papers, Jon Mee offered a provocative and historically sensitive reflection on the Romantic experience as one of coming together. What shape might that take? How can the first person plural express a sense of the collective?

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Romantic Retrospection" invites us to come to terms with the past, its artistic and poetical expression, and its ideas. Thank you to Jonathan Sachs for taking us through an experience of the past as written by Wordsworth and Byron, and the critics that have followed those lines.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Let's think about the first person plural, the "we" of the Romanticists of the conference and the international community in which "we" share! Thank you to Kevis Goodman for a stimulating reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry to open our conference!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Welcome to the BARS Conference 2026, 'Romantic Retrospection', at the University of Birmingham! We're just being welcomed by Dr Jessica Fay for the start of a fantastic and packed day 1! Please use the hashtag #BARS2026 to join the conversation!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BARS PGR and ECR Representatives 2026–2028 Announced Please welcome @19thcenturyem.bsky.social as our PGR Representative and @laurabrook.bsky.social and @serenaqihuipei.bsky.social as our ECR Representatives!! For more information please see the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6543

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BARS is delighted to announce the result of the appointment for BARS Review Editor, confirmed for a term to last until summer 2028. Congratulations Irene Valenti! For more information please see the BARS Blog below: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6556

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

BARS Conference 2026 - Final Registration: Next week, the University of Birmingham hosts the British Association for Romantic Studies international conference. The conference theme, Romantic Retrospection, has led to a diverse range of papers, sessions, and roundtables (1/6)

Image Credit: H. E. Pountney, Tudor Gateway to Aston Hall (1895), Birmingham Museum
With overlaid at the top of the page the University of Birmingham and BARS logos, then 'Romantic Retrospection' and the dates '29-31 July 2026'.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Join us for our first BARS Writing Group, from 9.30am - 11.30am BST on Tuesday 21st July, via Teams. Please complete the short form below and we will send over the Teams joining link to your email at 9am on the morning of 21st July. forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the first video of this series, Chloe (and their dog) talk about the figure of Lord Byron in ‘What it Feels Like for a Girl’ by Paris Lees. Do email us (britishassociationromantic@gmail.com) if you’d like to make a video! (We can even film you in-person at BARS in B’ham!)

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We'd love to post videos on our TikTok account about Queer Romanticism, whatever that means to you! Email us at britishassociationromantic@gmail.com with any ideas or questions. As always, people at any career stage are welcome and encouraged to contribute.

Poster on a pastel rainbow gradient background, which reads: Call for Contributors:
QUEER ROMANTICISM TIKTOK SERIES
It's Pride Month, and we're making a series on the Tik Tok about queer Romanticism! And you can help!
We'd love to post short videos about:
- Modern queer books, films, etc that use Romanticism in interesting ways
- Queer readings of Romantic texts
- Whatever else 'queer Romanticism' means to you!
We can edit videos for you, so no experience is needed!
Email britishassociationromantic@gmail.com with any ideas and/or questions.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Issue 62 of the BARS Review is now published!! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6507 www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The 2026 John Clare Festival is taking place 10-12 July - check it out below!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

BARS Executive Elections 2026: Call for Nominations – Deadline 8th July The British Association for Romantic Studies invites self-nominations from members who would like to stand for the role of President or Treasurer. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6491

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our next digital event will be an interactive workshop on making TikToks about your research! Run by yours truly, Chloe (@sadpphicstanza.bsky.social) and Amy (@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social). Join us on 30th June at 5pm BST. Meeting link on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6502

Poster for 'BARS Digital: TikTok, Short-form Content Creation, and Romantic Research', which reads: 'BARS’s TikTok account provides a platform for sharing tidbits of Romanticism with a wider audience. All of our members are welcome to contribute to the TikTok page to share their expertise, but we understand that short-form video is a confusing format for many people to work in. In this lunchtime workshop run by the BARS communications team (Amy Wilcockson and Chloe Wilcox), we will provide practical information of how to make TikToks for us, showing you:
- How TikTok works;
- How to choose a topic to speak about and tailor it to the time limit;
- How to film and edit videos.
The workshop will include a breakout session in which you’ll have the opportunity to draft a script for your own video.
We hope that attending will make the prospect of making a TikTok for us less intimidating, and allow us to feature a wider range of expertise on our account (from people like you!). It’ll also help you with other academic and Romantic social media work by getting you familiar with the mysterious but ever-growing world of short-form vertical video.'

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The recording of this event is now on the BARS Youtube channel, alongside a short film about Sarah Burdett’s ‘Drama Queens of the Georgian Period: A Tragic-Comic Entertainment’, in which actresses perform addresses and epilogues written/performed by Georgian women. www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...

A screenshot of two Youtube thumbnails. The first video is titled, 'Romantic Drama, Contemporary Performance: A Roundtable Discussion' and the second, 'Sarah Burdett’s ‘Drama Queens of the Georgian Period: A Tragic-Comic Entertainment’.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

BARS | @bavs-uk.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2026 Awardee Announced Congratulations to Dr Charlotte Wilson!! More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6487

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Taking place TOMORROW - 2 June 2026, 5pm UK Time BARS Digital Event: Romantic Drama, Contemporary Performance: A Roundtable Discussion Book free tickets at the link here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Appointed Role Advertisements: The BARS Review Editor and BARS Postgraduate and Early Career Officers 2026-2028 BARS is currently looking to appoint new Postgraduate and Early Career Officers to replace the outgoing role-holders, and a new Editor for The BARS Review. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6454

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

BARS News: Stephen Copley Research Award Applications Open (deadline June 1st 2026) Postgraduate researchers and early career scholars working in Romantic Studies are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award. More information: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New on the BARS Blog! Austen Retold: How I Brought Murder and Mayhem to Jane Austen’s Emma @lucyvandrew.bsky.social discusses how she transformed Austen’s Harriet Smith into a feisty detective in her new novel A Very Vexing Murder. Read more: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6429

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

BARS Digital Event Reminder for Monday 18th May: Science and Medicine in Women's Writing During the Romantic Period Register in advance for this webinar: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The BARS First Book Prize Shortlist has been announced! See the BARS Blog for more information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6441

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The BARS First Book Prize Shortlist has been announced! See the BARS Blog for more information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6441

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

WRITE FOR THE BARS BLOG! ✍️ Want to write for us? Here are some prompts for May! Which may or may not be themed around the Comms Fellow's all-consuming exam stress... Email us at britishassociationromantic@gmail.com if you'd like to write about these ideas or anything else!

A green poster which reads: MAY 2026 BLOG POST PROMPTS
Want to write for the BARS Blog?
Here are some ideas for May!
• The Comms Fellow is now deep in finals season and her first exam is on medieval literature: write about Romantic
Medievalisms
• Write about Romanticism and university.
(The Romantics at uni, teaching/being taught Romanticism at uni, etc).
• Hopefully the Comms Fellow will not fail any exams, but just in case: write about Romanticism and failure!
(Failed/unfinished works, failures in the literary marketplace, representations of failure,

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

UPCOMING BARS DIGITAL EVENT!! 'Science and Medicine in Women's Writing During the Romantic Period' 🔭🌿👩‍🔬 - 18th May, 5pm BST - Papers on environmental hums, disability life writing, dreaming, and botany! More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6417 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Poster for BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR ROMANTIC STUDIES DIGITAL EVENTS SERIES FOR SPRING 2026.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN WOMEN'S WRITING DURING THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ROUNDTABLE.
MONDAY MAY 18 @ 5PM (UK TIME) / 9 AM (PACIFIC TIME)/ 11 AM (CENTRAL TIME) / 12 PM (EASTERN TIME)
This roundtable brings a variety of topics in science and medicine together and seeks to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the intersection of literature, science, and medicine during the Romantic period. How, the presenters in this roundtable ask, did female Romantic writers incorporate scientific/medical knowledge into their works despite being barred from actively participating in scientific/medical discussions?
The four speakers will present on topics such as environmental humanities and Ann Radcliffe's travel writing, botany and Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl
(1800) as a Bildungsroman, sleep studies and Mary Wollstonecraft's and Mary Shelley's notions of dreaming, and Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) as feminist disability life writing.
Presenters:
• Emily Barber, PhD Student in English Literature, University of Notre Dame
• Katherine Gaffney, Lecturer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Liz Wan, DPhil Student in English Literature, University of Oxford
• Risako Nomura, MA Student in English Literature, Oregon State University
Moderator: Risako Nomura

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!

Poster for Placing the Nineteenth Century, An EHU19 PGR & ECR Conference. Theme: The North (West). Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire O'Callaghan (Loughborough University). Date: Friday 26th June 2026. CfP deadline: Friday 1st May 2026. Email ehuplace@outlook.com for abstracts and queries. Next to the text, the poster shows several images of the northwest throughout history.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you'll be near Sheffield on 18th June, check out this free lecture and film screening hosted by @radcliffecup.bsky.social! Tickets and more info on their Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-w...

Poster for "'Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now' presents Women in White and the New Gothic Cinema. A free lecture by Professor Catherine Spooner + a screening of Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak. The Showroom Cinema, 18th June, 6pm." Next to the text, the poster features a photo of a blonde woman in a white linen dress, holding a butterfly and candlesticks.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

BARS Research and Innovation Event: Applying for Funding Reminder: THIS MONDAY 20 April 2026, 10am-1pm UK time via Zoom Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Join us on Mon 20th April, 10am-1pm BST for a free online event on applying for funding! Register on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us for this Research and Innovation event designed to support colleagues who intend to apply for grants, including EU funding, and those who are keen to develop research collaborations. The event will link the expertise of academic colleagues with suitable funding opportunities and will support the development of meaningful partnerships to generate research income and collaborations. We welcome all members of our diverse research community at all career stages to attend.
The event will include presentations from a range of successful grant winners (from the BARS Exec and further afield) with time for Q&A

Speakers: Carmen Casaliggi, Andrew McInnes, Matthew Sangster, Gerry McKeever, Sophie Coulombeau, Rhona Brown

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN! We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

WE NEED YOU! Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch! Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The future of Rydal Mount, the final home of world-renowned poet William Wordsworth, has been secured thanks to a landmark acquisition by the Wordsworth Trust, working in partnership with The Julia Rausing Trust and the Charlotte Aitken Trust. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6397

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Dr Catherine Redford has kindly shared an insight into her wonderful new poetry collection The Way the Water Held Me with the BARS Blog. To read Catherine's post: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6367 For more about the collection: theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/...

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