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FR Shakespeare’s Family Fun Facts
Education Teaching Resources
This fact sheet gives you some details about the Shakespeare family, including ten facts you might find surprising.
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ESP Shakespeare’s Family Fun Facts
Education Teaching Resources
This fact sheet gives you some more details about the Shakespeare family, including ten facts you might find surprising.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: ‘Cubborde of Boxes’
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This cubborde was built to store the muniments, titles, evidences, deeds, and other legal documents of the Corporation.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Stool for a Witch
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Witchcraft was an ominous presence in the daily lives of early modern people, who used various means to protect themselves from malicious attack, such as this stool.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Knife Sheath
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In the sixteenth century a knife sheath was a practical and fashionable object that could be carried in a variety of ways
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Illuminating Shakespeare-Opening Night
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Learn more about this year's Illuminos light show projected onto Shakespeare's Birthplace. The show runs three times a week, so make sure to stop by
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Party animals at Shakespeare’s New Place
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Mischievous deer, badger and foxes create paw prints in the freshly laid and levelled sand ground at New Place.
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Shakespeare in Russian, part two: pre-revolutionary Shakespeares
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Kelsey Ridge tells us about the Trust's pre-revolutionary Russian editions of Shakespeare's works and their translators, marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
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Sustainable Shakespeare - Shakespeare’s Hedgehog-friendly Family Homes
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On Friday 22nd October, the team from Hedgehog Friendly Town released Freddie into the fields around Mary Arden’s Farm in Wilmcote.
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Sustainable Shakespeare - Responding to Extreme Heat at Shakespeare’s Family Homes
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The extreme heat in July meant that we had to make changes to how we operated our sites, to keep our staff, volunteers and visitors as safe as possible...
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Shakespeare Week 2023 Competition Winners Announced
Education Learning News
Announcing the Shakespeare Week 2023 winners for the 'Write till your ink be dry' competition
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“Shake this island”: Armenian Shakespeare Association Conference
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Vice-President of the Polish Shakespeare Association, Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, shares her impressions of a Shakespeare conference in Venice.
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Top 5 Shakespeare books for the festive season
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Our top five book recommendations from the expert team at the Shakespeare Bookshop.
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Residents Now Go Free to the Shakespeare Family Homes
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Residents can now pre-book their free visits to the Shakespeare family homes in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Commemorating International Women’s Day: The Women Who Made Shakespeare
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Highlight the often overlooked women in the Shakespeare family who played significant roles in his life and contributed to his cultural legacy.
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The Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarships 2024
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The Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarship has returned, with three scholarships worth £1,000 available.
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Proud Shakespeare - Taking Stock, Looking Forward
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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.
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Hubs for Primary Schools
Education Education Projects
A regional outreach initiative from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, offering creative learning experiences inspired by Shakespeare and delivered by experts in schools around the UK
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John Hutton's Etched Windows in the Shakespeare Centre
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The windows in the Marble Hall of the Shakespeare Centre were etched by artist John Hutton, and they are a marvellous exploration of Shakespeare's ability to create complex emotional figures.
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Shakespeare's Stories: Sir Francis Drake's Medal
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These navigational tools would have been used to help travellers navigate the tides during William Shakespeare’s time.