Alex Hewitt introduces the focus of her postgraduate research and internship at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - the virtual reconstruction of Shakespeare’s interiors at New Place.
Alex Hewitt SBT Collections New Place Lost InteriorsTransport yourself to Shakespeare's New Place as our filthy, floriferous, garden tale now enters its twelfth, and final act.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensA grey squirrel with attitude has sabotage in mind for our bulb planting. Time for an interlude, a mulberry gin, and a rainbow and unicorn day-dream.
Jane Shaw New Place Gardens7,000 spring bulbs are delivered, the weather continues to baffle and time flirts back an hour. Halloween ghouls whisk dahlias to a chilly oblivion and our new apprentice drives himself around the bend.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensDusk creeps in earlier-and-earlier, leaves turn colour minute-by-minute. September - a month of change, harvesting and clearing.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensThe infamous Reverend Gastrell returned to New Place this summer to defend his legacy, begging the question: was he the villain who destroyed New Place or a victim of history?
Vivienne Bayliss New PlaceThe rains return, a heaven sent pitter-patter-pitter-downpour that restores the beige lawn at Shakespeare's New Place to various shades of green.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensA fiery globe flings heat over our nation, our towns, villages, and grasslands… wastelands. There are murmurings of hose pipe bans, while many, not all, dream of England’s young football squad winning the Fifa World Cup, Andy Murray returning to Wimbledon
Jane Shaw New Place GardensThe heatwave continues. It sucks juices out of the earth, reaches temperatures that break meteorological records held since the year of 1910. Hot. Gritty. Dry. The mortar of the earth — Split-ting. Not unlike people the roots of some plants are withered a
Jane Shaw New Place GardensTake a stroll around the beautiful gardens at Shakespeare's New Place and find out what Jane and the team have been up to this spring
Jane Shaw New Place Gardens