Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.
Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....
Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.
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...
I just registered AND YOU SHOULD TOO!! Excited to be talking about my diss research on Thomas Bakewell (and Robert Bloomfield and Robert Burns)
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!!
A reminder that the deadline for Expressions of Interest in hosting BARS 2028 is coming up - if you're potentially interested, but have questions or concerns, please feel free to drop me an email. It's a big responsibility, but a very rewarding one, and crucial for the health of the Association.
Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.
Deadline April 21st - please circulate!
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion
📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.
See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...
🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
Publication Boxing Day! Shoutout to @books-borrowing.bsky.social in Feminist Librarianship, and thanks to @cilipscotland.bsky.social for a wonderful launch event at @natlibscot.bsky.social yesterday. If you’re interested in women’s reading, circulating libraries, and library history give it a read!
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese...
#skystorians 🗃️
What a fantastic day of Scottish History awaits! Join us on 28th March for our conference, AGM and presidential lecture. Free to members, £6 non-members
Register here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...
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Radcliffe's 'The Italian' was very popular with the borrowers of the Selkirk Library in the early 19th century borrowing.stir.ac.uk/search/0/0/0... - here's a chance to find out why!
EXCITING TALK ANNOUNCEMENT: @romgothsam.bsky.social will be speaking on Byron's Legacy, Newstead Abbey and Thomas Wildman for the Byron Society.
Get your free tickets below ⤵️
Call for Papers: 'Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference', @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027, organised by @mckeever.bsky.social & team. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2026. Details of financial support for PGRs to follow. tinyurl.com/yt2vj4x7
Now online! Our research review 🔬📜
We have more than 50 research projects under way at any given time at the Library. For a taste of what we do, check out our Research Review 2024–25.
📢Find out about the history of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh at next Tuesday's lunchtime talk at 1.15 pm @surgeonshall.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time...
I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte...
@bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social
Poster for the 'Reviving the Liberal' digital event explaining that speakers Serena Baiesi, Will Bowers, Greg Kucich, Diego Saglia, Maria Schoina, and Alessia Testori will discuss their research on and editing of the Romantic-era periodical The Liberal.
🚨 Next BARS Digital Event: 'Reviving "The Liberal": Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23', 11th March, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET 🗞️📰
Register for free: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Screenshot of the BARS Digital Events Youtube channel. The most recent 2 videos are titled Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth and Romantic Creativity Roundtable.
If you missed our digital events on 'Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth' and 'Romantic Creativity', you can catch up on the Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...
Call for Contributors!
Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830.
We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341
Call for Papers: 'Scotland and the In-Between', the annual Société française d’études écossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) conference (Université de Lorraine, 12-14 Nov 2026).
Proposals for papers in French or English are due 28th April.
More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6338
This week on the podcast: @drcleoocy.bsky.social and @kateferrier.bsky.social on why Susan Edmonstone Ferrier is more than just "the Scottish Jane Austen"
Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
New Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog: @jodielmarley.bsky.social on William Blake's Mysticism: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309.
My interview with @mjrsangster.bsky.social on my new book, William Blake's Mysticism, has just been published on the @bars.bsky.social blog. Thank you for your insightful questions, Matt 💫
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
And a DELIGHT to read this review of us! Thank you, @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social ! 😍
Did you know that we award SEVEN #fellowships, five of which have #deadlines of the ***1 FEBRUARY 2026***
#skystorians #18thC🗃️
Details can be found on our website or in the thread 🔽
www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
