We are delighted to announce that the next British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Researcher Conference, ‘Romantic (Un)Consciousness’, will take place at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge on 4-5 September 2025 and online on 12 September 2025.
Please stay tuned for further website updates!
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We are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, whose contributions have helped make this conference possible. Their support has not only facilitated the event itself but has also provided vital assistance to early career researchers and postgraduate students, including funding for bursaries to support attendance. The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) is committed to fostering research and collaboration within the field, and we deeply appreciate the role our sponsors play in enabling this work. A sincere thank you to:​ Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; The European Romantic Review; Studies in Romanticism; Essays in Romanticism; The Charles Lamb Society; Wordsworth Grasmere; the Association for Scottish Literature (ASLS), and the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (UCSL).​
CALL FOR PAPERS
British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) PGR & ECR Conference
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ROMANTIC
(UN)CONSCIOUSNESS
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Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
4th-5th September 2025 & Online, 12th September 2025
Keynote Speakers Include:
Dr Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London)
Dr Christopher Bundock (University of Essex)
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
- John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1689)
“The Dream is a second life. I have not been able to pierce without shuddering these doors of ivory or horn which separate us from the invisible world.”
"I thought I understood that a link existed between the external world and the internal world; that inattention or mental disorder alone distorted the apparent relationships, - and that this explained the strangeness of certain paintings, similar to these grimacing reflections of real objects which move on troubled water.”
- Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia (1855)
“One understands something most easily when one sees it represented. Thus, one understands the I only insofar as it is represented by the Non-I. The Non-I is the symbol of the I, and its sole purpose is to serve the I's understanding of itself. One understands the Non-I similarly, that is, only insofar as it is represented by the I, which becomes its symbol.”
“The beginning is a concept that comes later. The beginning originates later than the I; therefore, the I cannot have begun.”
- Novalis, Das Allgemeine Brouillon (1798 - 1799)
The Romantic period marked the start of a new way of thinking about human experience and its relation to the surrounding world. Scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists throughout Britain and Europe challenged preconceived ideas about human consciousness and placed an emphasis on exploring the space of the subjective imagination. British and European Romanticism’s philosophical, literary, and aesthetic output illustrates the complex and varied debates that surrounded the topic of consciousness or, as the Romantics would have described it, the imagination.
The 2025 BARS Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Conference invites explorations of the theme of ‘(un)consciousness’ within the context of Romantic-period ideas and cultural production. The conference will unite early-career and postgraduate researchers whose work considers the concept and representations of ‘consciousness’ from as wide a range of critical perspectives as possible.
Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:
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Conceptions of the Romantic Self (and Other)
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Romantics and the history of emotions
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Altering states of consciousness
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Romantics and affect studies
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Self-conscious poetry, prose, and drama
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Romantic theories of the mind e.g. in science, philosophy, the arts
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Mind/body (dis)connection
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Relationship between the mind and the world
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Romantic Epistemology
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Symbolism and Dreams
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the Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Uncanny
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Temporality, spatiality, and consciousness in Romanticism
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Ecological and Climatological (un)consciousness
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Romantic and Panpsychism
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Political (un)consciousness
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Comparative Romanticisms and global consciousness
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Race and consciousness
Please submit 250-word abstracts for 15-minute papers, along with 100-word biographies through the forms below:
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Online Paper Proposals: SUBMIT HERE
In-Person Paper Proposals: SUMBIT HERE
We also welcome 600-word proposals for pre-arranged panels, to be submitted by a panel chair, including individual abstracts and biographies from all panel speakers (3 papers per panel), through the following forms:
Online Panel Proposals: SUMBIT HERE
In-Person Panel Proposals: SUBMIT HERE​
All speakers listed on a prearranged panel are also asked to fill in and submit the individual paper form. This is to ensure that we are aware of any individual preferences, as well as all delegates' access and dietary requirements.
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The deadline for submissions is Monday 6th January 2025. (PLEASE NOTE: The deadline has been extended to Monday 20th January 2025.)
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Please direct all enquiries to bars.postgrads@gmail.com.
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Conference Organisers: Zooey Ziller (University of Cambridge), Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman (Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, and Edinburgh), Kate Nankervis (University of York)
BURSARIES
The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion within the field and is pleased to offer several bursaries to support delegates' attendance at the in-person conference in Cambridge. We recognise that financial barriers can limit participation in academic events, and these bursaries aim to address this challenge.
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Applications will be assessed based on financial need (taking into consideration other sources of funding available) and the strength of the submitted abstract.
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Oxford University Press has generously sponsored one bursary in the amount of £100.00 for conference delegates.
The European Romantic Review has generously sponsored two bursaries in the amount of £100.00 each.
Studies in Romanticism is offering one bursary in the amount of £100.00.
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Additionally, the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (UCSL) has kindly sponsored two bursaries in the amount of £100.00, with preference being given to delegates whose papers focus on or attend to Scottish Literature.
The Charles Lamb Society is sponsoring one bursary in the amount of £100.00 specifically for a paper focusing on any aspect of Charles and Mary Lamb and their circle. The recipient of this bursary should note that their paper will be considered for publication in the Charles and Mary Lamb Bulletin.
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We are also grateful to the Association for Scottish Literature (ASLS), Essays in Romanticism, and Wordsworth Grasmere for their generous sponsorship of our conference, which will further help to improve delegate accessibility. Thanks to their support, we will be able to offer three General Bursary awards in the amount of £100.00 each for delegates.
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The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) will be providing two bursaries in the amount of £100.00 each. In line with our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the field, these bursaries will be specifically awarded to delegates from traditionally underrepresented groups. This includes, but is not limited to: BAME scholars; disabled scholars; those identifying as trans or non-binary; individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds; and first-generation university students. Please note that women are not considered an underrepresented group for the purposes of this particular award.​
We are committed to protecting applicants' privacy and understand the sensitive nature of personal identity. Applicants need only disclose information they are comfortable sharing, and no documentation will be required to verify identity-related statements. We trust in the integrity of our applicants and their commitment to maintaining the intended purpose of this bursary in supporting scholars from underrepresented groups with a demonstrated financial need.
All delegates whose papers are accepted will receive an email in early February 2025 with detailed information about the bursary application process. While applicants may indicate a preference for a specific award, expressing such a preference will not make them ineligible for consideration for other bursaries. We will automatically consider every application for all applicable bursaries, to ensure that every applicant with a demonstrated need has the best possible chance of receiving financial support to attend the conference.
We encourage all eligible delegates to apply for these opportunities.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Rowan Rose Boyson
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
Rowan Rose Boyson is a Reader in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at King’s College London. She is the author of Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure (CUP, 2012, winner of the University English First Book Award); co-editor of The Poetic Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2013), and has published widely on the senses, smell, air and atmosphere in the Romantic period. She is Co-Lead of the Environmental Humanities Network at King’s College London and is currently working on The Shared Air: Atmosphere and the Right to Breathe in Enlightenment Britain, which was previously awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
Dr Christopher Bundock
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Chris Bundock is senior lecturer in Literature in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. He has published articles in venues such as European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, ELH, Romantic Circles Praxis, and Literature Compass. His research, broadly, explores Romantic resistances to Enlightenment thought. For instance, his first book, Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism (University of Toronto Press, 2016), tracked the work of the negative in Romantic experiments with prophetic vision and speech, arguing that it is prophecy’s routine failure to predict the future that makes it a useful mechanism for artists keen to reconceptualise the possibilities of history. In the essay collection William Blake’s Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (co-edited with Elizabeth Effinger; Manchester UP, 2018) he gathered papers exploring those moments in Blake’s visionary, composite art (moments often remarked in passing but rarely pursued) in which Gothic affects and aesthetics darken the illuminated page. His most recent book project, Sense and Morbid Sensibility: Pathologies of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth-Century and Romanticism, interrogates one of the most important concepts of the Enlightenment, sympathy, from a Romantic perspective. At first glance, the exaltation of sympathy in the eighteenth century, especially in political economics and sentimental literature, seems to promote social cohesion and, as such, function as a key component in a healthy society. Yet, when intensified, sympathy discloses a limit beyond which it becomes pathological and socially destructive. This project rehistoricises key concepts such as sympathy, passion, and sensibility—all terms that navigate the somatisation of feeling—to argue that this toxicity is legible in the emergence, in the science and literature of the period, of a range of nervous disorders, including hypochondriasis, phantom limp pain, furor uterinus (later nymphomania), the vapours, nightmare, and morbid sensibility. While this project draws on a wide range of medical-historical writing from the late seventeenth century through to the early nineteenth century, the primary literary focus is Romantic, featuring chapters on Blake, Joanna Baillie, and Maria Edgeworth. His next project builds on some of the medical-historical work of Sense and Morbid Sensibility to examine the relationship between aesthetic and organic forms in Romanic art and natural sciences. Bundock has served on the Executive for the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism since 2015 and is currently NASSR Secretary. He is also a co-editor of Romanticism on the Net.
Dr Joanna Neilly
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Joanna Neilly is Associate Professor in German at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of St Peter's College. She has published widely on nineteenth-century German literature and culture, most recently with a focus on German Romanticism and its transnational reception and reworking. She is the author of E. T.A. Hoffmann's Orient: Romantic Aesthetics and the German Imagination (Legenda, 2016). She is currently working on a translation of Hoffmann's story collection Night Pieces, which will be published with OUP's World's Classics series in 2026, and on a book about the Romantic poetry cycle Die Winterreise and its afterlives in literature, theatre, and art.
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WORKSHOPS
Monograph Workshop
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Are you considering transforming your thesis into a published book? Join us for a dedicated Monograph Workshop led by Bethany Thomas, Publisher in Literature at Cambridge University Press, as she guides participants through the process of turning an academic thesis into a monograph.
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This session is designed to support emerging scholars and early-career researchers with practical advice and key insights into the world of academic publishing. Topics will include preparing a book proposal, positioning your work for a publisher, and understanding the peer review and editorial process.
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Following the presentation, there will be an interactive Q&A, offering attendees the opportunity to ask questions and receive tailored advice on the publication process.
SPEAKER BIO
Bethany Thomas is a Publisher in Literature at Cambridge University Press. She is responsible for lists in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and European Literature and looks after the monograph series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture and Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. She also commissions across the Cambridge Companion, Cambridge History and Literature in Context series, as well as looking after a wide range of scholarly editions, including the works of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald, the Brontës and Jonathan Swift. She also commissions trade books, such as the literary biography series Lives in Ten Letters, and looks after series in the Cambridge Elements programme, including on Publishing and Book Culture, Crime Writing and Health Humanities.
​Alternative Academic Careers
Plenary Roundtable
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This plenary roundtable explores professional pathways beyond the traditional academic trajectory. Often referred to as "alternative academic" or "alt-ac" careers, these roles encompass a wide range of positions both within and adjacent to the academic sphere, including in publishing, research and higher education administration, digital humanities, policy analysis and development, cultural and heritage sectors, nonprofit and public sector organisations, and consulting and industry. Such careers enable researchers to apply their disciplinary training and subject expertise in diverse professional contexts outside of permanent academic teaching and research posts.
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The session will feature speakers who have successfully transitioned into a variety of alternative academic roles. Panellists will reflect on how their doctoral training and research experience continue to inform their work, and how transferable skills—such as critical thinking, writing, project management, and disciplinary expertise—remain central to their professional practice.
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The roundtable will conclude with an open Q&A and discussion, providing attendees with the opportunity to ask questions, seek guidance, and consider how their academic skills and interests might translate into a broader range of career possibilities beyond traditional academia.
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SPEAKER BIOS
Simon Brown is Curator at Newstead Abbey. Over the past eight years, he has also worked as a curator at the National Justice Museum and the National Civil War Centre, and as Curator for Community History and World Cultures at Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. He has held roles in museum education, community engagement, front-of-house services, and exhibition installation, and has served as Head of Service at Erewash Museum in Derbyshire. His work has been recognised by the Museums Association and the Museum and Heritage Awards. Alongside his curatorial role, Simon is also a Relationship Manager for Arts Council England, supporting National Museums with their accreditation, and was formerly Vice-President of the Museums Association.
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Kaila Rose is the Outreach Coordinator for the Byron Society of America, Communications Officer for the International Association of Byron Societies, and Director of Communication for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. With over a decade of experience in the Byron world, Kaila has worked to grow and diversify membership, expand outreach, and strengthen academic partnerships. Her background spans hospitality, edtech, marketing, and independent scholarship. Through her creative and inclusive initiatives, she has contributed to enriching the global literary communities surrounding Byron.
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Paul Cockburn is currently in the post-submission, pre-viva stage of his AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature at Durham University. He is also Marketing Executive for British Academy Publishing at Liverpool University Press (LUP), having previously served as Journals Publishing Assistant and Editorial Assistant for French Studies. His current role builds on experience gained during a British Research Council Fellowship at the Library of Congress (2023) and an AHRC-funded internship with LUP. He recently co-authored an editorial on journal hacking and publishing ethics in International Development Planning Review.​​​​
The panel will be chaired by Emily Paterson-Morgan. Emily is the Chief Academic Officer at Knowledge E, which provides scholarly content, academic publishing solutions, capacity-building services and consultancy services to a wide range of government organisations, funding bodies and academic entities across the globe. She is also the Co-Founder and Director of the Forum for Open Research in MENA, working with UNESCO and key regional stakeholders to promote the development and implementation of open science policies and practices across the Arab region. As an independent scholar working in the field of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, Emily serves as Director of The Byron Society, is a member of various editorial boards and sits on the boards of a number of research associations and scholarly associations working to advance research development, promote equitable research practices, and support romanticism studies.
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REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!​
We look forward to welcoming you to Cambridge for the 2025 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Researcher Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'.
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A provisional programme can be downloaded here. Please note that while panel times may be subject to change, the day on which delegates are scheduled to present will remain the same.
Please select the appropriate registration option below, make your payment via PayPal (link below), and complete the registration form to confirm your place. Registration will close on August 1 2025 at midnight (GMT).
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Registration Fees
In-Person Registration – £65
Registration for full access to both conference days. Includes access to the online conference day and daily morning refreshments (tea, coffee, & biscuits). Please note that afternoon refreshments, lunch, and accommodation are not included in the registration fee.
Day Rate – £45
Registration for access to a single day. Includes access to the online conference day and morning refreshments (tea, coffee, & biscuits). Please note that afternoon refreshments, lunch, and accommodation are not included in the registration fee.​
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Online-Only Registration – £25
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Access to the Alternative Academic Professional Development Roundtable (online) – by donation
Access to the online panel is open to those not attending the conference for a small donation (minimum £5). You do not have to be a member of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), however your contribution will help support its activities, and any additional generosity is greatly appreciated. Please complete the registration form below and select the appropriate responses. ​
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Optional Conference Dinner
We are planning an optional conference dinner at The Eagle on Thursday September 4 at 19.00. Registration for the dinner is separate from conference registration—you will find further details below on how to sign up.
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British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Membership
All conference attendees must be members of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS). If you are not already a member, you will need to join before registering. BARS memberships run from 1st January to 31st December each year. Subscriptions are due on January 1st, regardless of the month of joining BARS.
The annual subscription costs £25 (waged) or £10 (unwaged and/or postgraduate).
You can sign up here: Join the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
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How to Register​
1. Ensure you are a BARS member. All attendees must be members—if you haven’t joined yet, you’ll need to do so before registering. Join the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS).
2. Select the appropriate registration option and calculate your total fee.
3. Make your payment via PayPal using the button below:​
Conference Dinner
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We will be hosting an optional conference dinner at The Eagle on Thursday September 4 at 19.00 for those who would like to attend. It will be a wonderful opportunity to continue conversations in a more relaxed setting. ​​​​​​​​​​​
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Please find a copy of the menu here.
For detailed allergen information, please consult the allergen sheet available here.
Main courses are priced between £15.00 and £18.00.
Delegates are welcome to add a starter or dessert to their order; however, this is entirely optional.
Beverages may be ordered on the day and will be billed separately, with delegates responsible for settling their own accounts.
If you would like to attend, please calculate the total cost of your order, including an additional £2.00 to cover the service charge, and make your payment via PayPal using the button below. Once you have paid, please fill out the dinner registration form so we can confirm your place. Registration for the dinner will close on August 1 2025 at midnight (GMT).
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How to Register for the Conference Dinner
Pay via PayPal using the button below:​
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4. Complete the registration form to confirm your place: Conference Registration Form
We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge in September!
Complete the separate dinner registration form below to confirm your place. If you have any dietary requirements or preferences, there will be space to note these in the registration form.
LOCATION
Romantic (Un)Consciousness will take place at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
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Founded in 1350, Trinity Hall is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the University, and is centrally located in Cambridge along the river, a short walk from the city center where delegates can find a number of cafés and restaurants, as well as other amenities.
GETTING TO CAMBRIDGE &
TRINITY HALL
Cambridge is easily accessible from all major UK cities and airports. The city enjoys excellent rail connections, with frequent direct services from London King's Cross (50 minutes) and Liverpool Street (1 hour 15 minutes) stations. Cambridge Railway Station, located approximately one mile from Trinity Hall, also receives direct trains from Stansted Airport, Birmingham, Leicester, and other major cities. For train schedules and booking, please visit National Rail at www.nationalrail.co.uk.
For international visitors, London Stansted is the most convenient airport, located just 30 miles from Cambridge with direct train connections taking 30-45 minutes. London Luton (40 miles) and Heathrow (60 miles) airports are also easily accessible via National Express coach services, while Gatwick Airport (90 miles) connects to Cambridge by train via London. National Express operates regular coach services to Cambridge from London Victoria Coach Station and all London airports, arriving at Cambridge Coach Station on Parkside, a 15-minute walk from Trinity Hall.
Once in Cambridge, several transportation options are available. Trinity Hall, situated on Trinity Lane in the city centre, is accessible from the railway station by taxi (10 minutes), the bus (15 minutes), or on foot (25-30 minutes). Stagecoach operates comprehensive bus services throughout Cambridge, including the Universal and U bus services which connect the railway station and city centre. You can find real-time bus information through the Stagecoach app (available for free download on iOS and Android) or by visiting www.stagecoachbus.com.
For local transportation, reliable taxi services include Panther Taxis (01223 715715), CamCab (01223 704704), and A1 Cabco (01223 525555).
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is not included in the registration fee, and delegates are invited to source their own accommodation for the conference. However, delegates may like to book accommodation at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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Single bedrooms with shared bathroom facilities are available at Trinity Hall's Central Site, where the conference will be held, giving delegates the opportunity to stay overnight in one of Cambridge's oldest colleges. Double ensuite bedrooms are available at nearby WYNG Gardens on Thompson’s Lane, in the historic city centre, an approximately 10 minute walk from Trinity Hall. Additionally, ​single ensuite accommodation is offered at Trinity Hall's Wychfield Site, which is located approximately a mile from the College and the Cambridge city centre.
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For more details on the rooms, availability, and pricing, please visit the Trinity Hall conference accommodation webpage (https://conferences.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-college-guest-bedrooms). Further information regarding pricing will be available from approximately April 2025.
We encourage delegates to book your accommodation early as availability is limited.​
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CAMBRIDGE GUIDE
THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM​
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The Fitzwilliam Museum houses masterpieces from seven centuries of art. Highlights include Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia and Canaletto's views of Venice's Grand Canal. The French Impressionist collection features significant works from Monet, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro, as well as works by Post-Impressionist Cézanne, while its modern collection includes pieces by Picasso and Matisse. The Fitzwilliam's Pre-Raphaelite holdings are particularly strong, featuring Rossetti's The Day Dream and Found, Millais' The Bridesmaid, and William Holman Hunt's Studies of the Lady of Shalott, alongside works by Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones.
The Romantic period is exceptionally well represented. William Blake's works include hand-coloured prints from Songs of Innocence and Experience, pages from his illustrated Book of Job, and rare illuminated manuscripts showing his unique printing technique. Turner's watercolours include both finished exhibition pieces and experimental colour studies. The museum holds one of the finest collections of John Constable's cloud studies and oil sketches outside of London, as well as Samuel Palmer's landscapes and Richard Parkes Bonington's architectural studies.
The print room also contains a significant collection of German Romantic prints, including works by Caspar David Friedrich, and early proofs of Blake's engravings.
Note: The print room and illuminated manuscripts can be viewed by appointment only.
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www.museums.cam.ac.uk/museums/the-fitzwilliam-museum
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KETTLE'S YARD​
Kettle's Yard, created by former Tate curator Jim Ede, offers a unique vision of how art can be experienced in a domestic setting, where natural objects, furniture, and modernist masterpieces are arranged in precise dialogue with light and space. The collection includes significant works from the British modernist movement: Barbara Hepworth's sculptures; Ben Nicholson's abstract reliefs and paintings; and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's sculptures and drawings. The house also features important works by Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Joan Miró, Constantin Brancusi, David Jones, and Winifred Nicholson.
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​TRINITY COLLEGE'S WREN LIBARARY
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Trinity College's Wren Library (1695), Christopher Wren's classical masterpiece, houses priceless collections including Newton's own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica, his prism experiments, and early manuscripts of Winnie-the-Pooh.
As part of our conference programme we're delighted to announce a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College to view a curated selection of Romantic-period materials on September 4 at 5.30 PM. While those joining us will be able to view some additional materials, for anyone unable to make it, many Romantic-period items will be on display in the library's display cabinets during our conference for delegates to view during normal visiting hours (please visit the link below for more information).​​​
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www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/visitors
​PUNTING
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The River Cam offers Cambridge's most iconic views. King’s College Chapel, The Wren Library at Trinity College, and St John's Bridge of Sighs are just some of the famous landmarks you can expect to see. Professional punt tours (45 minutes) depart regularly from two locations: Quayside (near Magdalene Bridge) or Mill Lane (near Silver Street Bridge). You are also welcome to hire a self-directed punt.​​
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www.scudamores.com
www.cambridgepuntcompany.co.uk
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KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL​
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King's College Chapel, built between 1446 and 1515, represents the finest achievement of English Perpendicular Gothic. Its fan-vaulted ceiling, completed under Henry VIII, creates the largest unsupported medieval vault in the world. You can also view Rubens' Adoration of the Magi (1634), which was installed as the altarpiece in 1968.
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www.shop.kings.cam.ac.uk/pages/visiting-kings-college-chapel
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​THE TOWER OF GREAT ST MARY'S​
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​The Tower of Great St Mary's, built between 1491 and 1519, offers Cambridge's best viewpoint, where climbing 123 steps offers panoramic views of the city's architectural evolution - from medieval college courts to contemporary developments.
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GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS & THE ORCHARD​
The walk to Grantchester village through the meadows follows a two-mile path along the River Cam. Lord Byron regularly swam here during his time at Trinity College.
The village of Grantchester itself features the medieval Church of St Mary and St Andrew, and The Orchard Tea Garden. Established in 1897, it became a regular haunt of the 'Grantchester Group,' including Rupert Brooke, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Augustus John, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Virginia Woolf.
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​MARKET SQUARE & MILL ROAD
Market Square, open from 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM, exemplifies Cambridge's vibrant daily life. You'll find traditional market stalls selling locally grown and artisanal produce, and food stalls offering a diverse range of cuisine. ​
Mill Road, beginning just east of Parker's Piece, represents Cambridge's most diverse and culturally rich district, where you'll find a number of cafés and restaurants representing cuisines and cultures from around the world, as well as specialist grocery stores and artisanal delis.
FOOD & GROCERY STORE RECOMMENDATIONS
Independent Cafés, Eateries, & Restaurants in Cambridge
Cafés & Small Bites:​
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Bould Brothers Coffee (Round Church St., Regent St.)
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Pages Coffee House (Trumpington St.)
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Fitzbillies (King's Parade, Bridge St., Trumpintgon St.)
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The Cambridge Oven (Hills Rd.)
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Maison Clement Bakery & Patisserie (Hills Rd., Derby St. - Newnham)
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Bridges (Bridge St.)
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Kanto Cafe & Bakery (Filipino café - Cherry Hinton Road)
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Urban Larder (Mill Road)
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Modigliani (Mill Road)
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Espresso Lane (Boltoph Lane)
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Stir Bakery (to-go only - Green St.)
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Hot Numbers Coffee - (Gwydir St., off Mill Rd.)
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Dulcedo Social (Eddington)
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Ice-cream & Gelato
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Jack’s Gelato (Bene't St., All Saints Passage)
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Aromi (serving window at Maccaruna Pasta, Peas Hill)
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Aromi Caffe & Pizzeria (Italian - Bene't St.)
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Maccaruna Pasta (Italian - Peas Hill)
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King’s Dough (Italian - King St.)
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Bread & Meat (Bene't St.)
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Ittou Noodle Bar (ramen/Japanese - King's Parade)
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Butch Annie's (Market Passage)
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1+1 Rougamo (Chinese - Regent St.)
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The Architect (Castle St. - Fish & Chip and Pie & Mash Bar) (GF menu/coeliac friendly)
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Cafe Foy (Quayside)
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Limoncello (Italian - Mill Road)
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Smokeworks - (Free School Lane)
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Bibimbap House (Korean - Mill Road)
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Restaurants - £££
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The Astronomer (Eddington)
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Vanderlyle (vegetarian/vegan - Mill Road - bookings required)
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Fancett’s (French-influenced bistro - Mill Road - bookings required)
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Gluten-Free Friendly/Coeliac Friendly
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The Architect (GF options, ask when ordering - Castle St. - Fish & Chip and Pie & Mash Bar)
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Arepa’s Station (Venezuelan - Market Square Stall)
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Pho (GF options, Wheeler St.)
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Honest Burger (GF options, Corn Exchange St.)
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Butch Annie's (burgers - GF options, Market Passage)
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La Latina Bustaurante (Latin/South American - The Grafton Centre)
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Bread & Meat (GF options, ask when ordering - Bene't St.)
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Smokeworks (GF options, ask when ordering -Free School Lane)
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Bibimbap House (Korean - GF options, ask when ordering - Mill Road)
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Bill's (GF options, ask when ordering - Green St.)
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Grocery Stores (City Centre & Eddington)​​
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Sainsbury's (Sidney St., opposite Sidney Sussex College)
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Sainsbury's Local (St Andrew's St.)
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JiaMART (Asian grocery - Regent St.)
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Marks & Spencer Foodhall (Market Hill)
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Tesco Express (Christ's Lane)
- Tesco Express (Petty Curry)
- Oseyo Cambridge (Asian grocery - Petty Curry)
- Sainsbury's (Eddington - for delegates staying at Trinity Hall, Wychfield Site)​
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Specialty Food Shops & Delicatessens
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Frederic’s (French-style delicatessen - Magdalene St.)
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The Cambridge Cheese Company (Independent Cheesemonger and deli - All Saints Passage)
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Green Nest (independent grocery store with an artisan coffee and cake corner - Mill Road & Eddington)
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Cambridge Wine Merchant’s (Independent Wine Merchant - King's Parade & Bridge St. )
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Culinaris (independent delicatessen - Mil Rd.)