How did people living in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries store their medicines? Like today, appropriate containers were essential for storing them.
Victoria Jackson Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsTaking a look at first digitised objects: "The Hair of the Head of Shakespeare" and "The Hair of Anne Hathaway".
Robyn Greenwood Going DigitalShakespeare's work still attracts visitors from all over the world
Shakespeare's BirthplaceTom and Mig Holte's photo featuring the Night of Revels scene from the RSC’s 1979 production of 'Twelfth Night'.
Helen Hargest Picture of the MonthShakespeare's works still attract people from all over the world
USA Shakespeare's BirthplaceShakespeare's works still attract visitors from all over the world
Shakespeare's BirthplacePortia's reference to a ‘deep glass’ in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice suggests something like this, a remarkably fine and well preserved example of a sixteenth-century berkemeier.
Peter Hewitt Merchant of Venice Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsThe common cough and cold spread quickly in the winters of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Dr John Hall, married to William Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susanna, was the only physician in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare and his World--MOOCThroughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, samplers were increasingly used by girls and young women to practise their embroidery technique
Stephanie Appleton A Midsummer Night's Dream Othello Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsElizabeth Sharrett discusses the Tudor baby walker in our collections
Elizabeth Sharrett Shakespeare in 100 Objects