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.

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

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…

Shakespeare’s Lost Interiors: A Bed in the Parlour?

Tudor Times

Why did Tudors put their best beds in the parlour, and how likely was Shakespeare to have followed this early modern trend?

Shakespeare's Lost Interiors: Introduction

Collections

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.