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Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Plant Perspectives' 2.2, a special issue guest edited by Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan at Kew Gardens; forthcoming in October. #openaccess #subscribetoopen @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies

BARS First Book Prize: Call for Expressions of Interest in Serving on the Judging Panel
BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize.
More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

Hi Dilara! The essential criteria includes: 'Achieved or be on track to achieving a PhD (or equivalent experience) in Romanticism, ideally focusing upon the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley'; you can email m.callaghan@sheffield.ac.uk with any queries about this, hope that helps! 😊

We so need 'Sheffield Shelley Squad' emblazoned on jackets! 😂🥰✨️

🔊 Sheffield Shelley squad!

✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August.

Please share with ECRs!

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Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'.

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Of Hope & Rage, by these·titans·were·silent 7 track album

In a perhaps unusual "thrilled to announce" post for an academic... My band's first album, "Of Hope and Rage", a loose adaptation of Percy Shelley's "Masque of Anarchy" was just released! Check it out: thesetitansweresilent.bandcamp.com/album/of-hop...

Excellent news - congrats, John-Erik! Might be of interest to @paulstephens.bsky.social too (as a Shelleyan who has formerly worked with Iron Maiden!)

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Thanks to @vbivar.bsky.social for curating this super helpful collection of accessible, short-form reading about some of the dangers and limitations of generative AI.

Early Career Teaching Fellow in English Literature (Romanticism) at The University of Edinburgh Apply for the Early Career Teaching Fellow in English Literature (Romanticism) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

✨️Job Alert: Early Career Teaching Fellow in English Literature (Romanticism)✨️

Fixed-term, University of Edinburgh. Closing date: 27 June.

Please share with ECRs @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH593/e...

Text source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35698/35698-h/35698-h.htm#LIII Image source (detail): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Keats_-_HH.jpg

I am now so depressed that I have not an idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness; it does not take away the pain of Existence. I don’t know what to write.

John Keats (letter B. Bailey, 28 May 1818)

Many thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social
@abdavis.bsky.social &
@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for their great papers on Romanticism and contemporary music esp Matt for organising-now thinking about the Romantic repeatability of deathly presences (& how bad writing degrades the quality of our suffering)

In advance of this event I am very pleased to announce that we are once more able to offer both full time and part time routes of study on our MA for September 2025: www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/course...
Come along to this evening talk on Wed 28th May to find out more 📚🍃

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

MHRA Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London An opportunity for an academic position as a MHRA Research Fellow is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

✨️Job Alert: MHRA Research Fellow on The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley✨️

Fixed-term at QMUL, closing date 12 June. Please share with ECRs @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC513/m...

Congrats Amy! Fantastic opportunity 🥳

A poster with images of textile artwork displayed in trees and an artist photo of a woman in white overalls. The poster is advertising a workshop entitled Experiencing Trees Through Charcoal Drawings, and the text is in blue and orange. There is also a QR code to sign up for the event.

Part 2 of this symposium on 14 May is a workshop in Stavanger Botanical Gardens with Helene Espedal-Selvåg, including two hibakujumoku—trees grown from seeds that survived the Hiroshima bombing

Info and registration for "Experiencing Trees through Charcoal Drawings" on the Greenhouse website.

Lecturer in 18th Century Literature at King's College London Recruiting now: Lecturer in 18th Century Literature on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

✨️ Job Alert: Lecturer in 18th Century Literature ✨️

Fixed-term, including teaching Romanticism. Please share with ECRs @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ646/l...

Spots of Mine(craft)

A new Five Questions interview up on the @bars.bsky.social Blog: Ross Wilson on Percy Shelley in Context (@cambridgeup.bsky.social): www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5985.

Campaign to preserve Wordsworth's home at Rydal Mount for the public 🌿

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📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

📢 Registration now OPEN for #BARS2025 - spread the word 📢

A fantastic programme set up for both online and in person days - see you in September!

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We're delighted to announce that registration is now OPEN for the British Association for Romantic Studies 2025 ECR & PGR Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'.

Please visit our conference website for further details and to register!

barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

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University of Derby staff face mass job cuts as management plans to axe half of senior academics University of Derby staff face mass job cuts as management plans to axe half of senior academics

University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew

Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 7 bedroom detached house for sale in Rydal Mount, Rydal, Ambleside, LA22 9LU, LA22 for £2,500,000. Marketed by AshdownJones, The Lakes and Lune Valley

Anyone want to give me £2.5million to save Rydal Mount from the inevitable development any private buyer with that much cash to spare will subject it to? So awful to see this important piece of literary history being sold way.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...