John Clare scholars worldwide are reminded that the John Clare Society operates an annual bursary scheme under the Ronald Blythe Fellowship. The closing date for the current year is 30 October 2026. The bursaries provide up to £1,000 for full-time or part-time PhD students researching in the field of John Clare studies and registered at a university. The bursary will fund essential archive or library … Continue reading Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026-2027
Introducing a lecture by John Clare Society President Professor John Goodridge. A video of the lecture can be viewed here and a transcript is available to download. Continue reading Video: Reading by glow worm: the struggles of labouring-class poets
The British Library has acquired the archive of the great writer on English rural life Ronald Blythe, founder President of the John Clare Society and author of Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. Blythe, who died in 2023 at the age of one hundred, never made use of a computer, but his papers, which run to a million pages, are said to have been kept … Continue reading Ronald Blythe at the British Library
