Blogs

Volunteer’s Week 2023 - Spotlight on our Collections Care Volunteers: Part 2

In the first part of this two-part series for Volunteer’s Week 2023, Collections Care Assistant Amy Davies sat down with some volunteers who currently support the Collections department to find out about their volunteering experience. In part two she explores their favourite items in our collections and what they’ve learned while volunteering for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Volunteer’s Week 2023 - Spotlight on our Collections Care Volunteers: Part 1

Ahead of Volunteer’s Week 2023, Collections Care Assistant Amy Davies sat down with some volunteers who currently support the Collections department to find out more about their volunteering experience and what motivates them to volunteer for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Shakespeare’s Family Gardens - Spring 2023 at New Place

Find out what our gardens team have been up to and what’s happening in the New Place garden this spring.

Charles III - His Majesty the King’s Shakespearian Quotes

Coronations in the SBT Collections - Charles III, Queen Victoria and Stratford-upon-Avon

Proud Shakespeare - Taking Stock, Looking Forward

The intersection of Shakespeare with queer culture and history shapes the future as much as it does the past. At the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, we take the same approach, and so at the beginning of 2023, we want to look back on the Proud Shakespeare of last year in order to look forwards to the future.

Facing the Consequences of the Holocaust

Collections

In commemoration of Holocaust victims and survivors, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Cataloguing Archivist Jim Ranahan looks at a seemingly ordinary document from our Collections…

Sustainable Shakespeare – A ‘Rich Increase’ in Wildlife at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage this Autumn

Find out more about some unexpected visitors who turned up early for Halloween…

Sustainable Shakespeare – Autumn Update from Mary Arden’s Farm

Find out how Mary Arden's Farm has been becoming sustainable in autumn 2022

Welcoming Volunteers Back to the Gardens at Shakespeare’s Family Homes

Find out what the first cohort of garden volunteers since the reopening of Shakespeare's Family Homes have been up to...