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The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work.
Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information:
johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/

Congratulations, Rhys! If you fancy doing a Five Questions interview for the BARS Blog to raise awareness, please just drop me an email.

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is offering a PhD scholarship on “Robert Burns & the Environment” – part of a new research strand on Burns, the Environment & Sustainable Cultural Heritage

DEADLINE 18 AUGUST
#C18th #Romanticism
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Congratulations!

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race uses two POVs very effectively.

BARS Executive Elections 2025: Call for Nominations – deadline 22nd August
BARS invites self-nominations from those who would like to stand for positions on the Executive.

More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6083
Description of roles: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6081

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

The Word for World is Forest. The Overstory. Lord of the Rings.

Alex is @footnotesman.bsky.social‬ here.

You might want to talk with Alex Watson (Meiji University) or Laurence Williams (Sophia University) - they're both Romanticists who've been in Japan a long while, and would be will placed to give advice.

Congratulations, Tim - very well deserved!

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A reminder that registration for #BARS2025, ‘Romantic (Un)Consciousness’, closes *this Friday 1 August*

Instructions for registering as a presenting and non-presenting delegate are here: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

We look forward to welcoming you online and in Cambridge in September!

✨️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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Now available on the BARS Blog:

BARS President's Report 2025

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6068

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Registration for the 2025 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career & Postgraduate Researcher Conference, Romantic (Un)Consciousness, closes on Friday August 1 at midnight (GMT)! ⏳

Register now via our conference website: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

Congratulations - well deserved!

Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2025-26

BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.

Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062

Also taking place next week:
BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms, 25th July 2025, 3pm-6.15 BST.

Links to follow in an email to BARS Members.

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

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BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ Programme – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052
Links to follow on Monday 21 July - keep an eye on emails!

Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount next June! Please help us spread the word. Submissions deadline: 1 October

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Enjoyed doing this interview with Sylvia Bishop for Five Books. I was asked to pick classic Fantasy books - choosing five was tough, as you can probably tell from both the length and all the side mentions...:

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For those interested in writers' lives (and particularly their tribulations), the Royal Literary Fund has now made available an index covering over 3,600 case files for authors who first applied between 1790 and 1939, based on my catalogue for the British Library: www.rlfarchive.org.uk.

Thank you for writing such a brilliant book

Enjoyed doing this interview with Sylvia Bishop for Five Books. I was asked to pick classic Fantasy books - choosing five was tough, as you can probably tell from both the length and all the side mentions...:

fivebooks.com/best-books/c...

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

The A-Z (www.rlfarchive.org.uk/authors/) covers authors who applied themselves or whose dependents applied after their deaths, but there are a lot of interesting recommenders and advocates who can be found with a name search - Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats (for James Joyce)...

This can be used to find the case file numbers necessary to request materials at the BL while the manuscripts catalogue remains down (although there are significant RLF materials it doesn't cover, such as the annual reports and anniversary dinner papers).

For those interested in writers' lives (and particularly their tribulations), the Royal Literary Fund has now made available an index covering over 3,600 case files for authors who first applied between 1790 and 1939, based on my catalogue for the British Library: www.rlfarchive.org.uk.

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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Don't over-index - they're less heavily used than they used to be before CTRL-F. An index that shows what you see as the most important ideas in the book is probably more helpful than one that tries to anticipate every possible use.