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