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Theme summary: Home
Explore Shakespeare Museum From Home The Susanna Hall & Hall’s Croft Project Theme pages for the Digital Spatial Archive
Theme summary page for Home, part of the digital spatial archive of Hall's Croft
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Anne Hathaway’s Cottage Opening Date Brought Forward as Season Extended for 2024
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Anne Hathaway’s Cottage is set to reopen to visitors on 10 February 2024.
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Volunteer’s Week 2023 - Spotlight on our Collections Care Volunteers: Part 1
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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.
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Leisure Learning
Education Learning News
Living Shakespeare
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OUTing the Past Festival 2022
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On Thursday 17th February 2022, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will be joining OUTing the Past Festival, in our third year as a festival hub.
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Meet the Maker Alison Gardiner, Artist and Designer
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Alison Gardiner, ceramic artist and Illustrator of the Shakespeare's Character range.
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Plot and Sources
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Everything you need to know about the plot in Macbeth to help your GCSE revision
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Meet the Maker: Louisa Hare, Letterpress Printer
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Join us as we meet some of the makers and producers that give our products that extra something, revealing what makes them so special. Louisa Hare is a local Letterpress Printer and founder of First Folio Cards.
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Tate’s Lear
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Alexander Thom takes a look at Nahum Tate’s 1681 adaptation of William Shakespeare's King Lear.
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'Getting to Know Will' Workshop
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We've launched a new workshop for Key Stage 2 children, bringing Shakespeare and British history to life in practical and creative ways.
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Pushing Upward and Forward: American Actresses on the RSC Stage
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Discover the lives and works of American actresses who performed on the RSC stage with Brooke Tobler.
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Hardy Hamlet
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The ongoing digitisation happening in the SBT studio, focusing on two interesting items in the SBT Library collection: Hardy's copy of 'Hamlet' and Rowe's compilation of Shakespeare's works.
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A Week in the Life of a Collections Volunteer
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A passionate volunteer shares her experiences on spending a week with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Learning Languages and Love's Labour's Lost
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John Florio was a linguist and lexicographer, and his famous translation of Montaigne's "Essais" is known to have had a significant impact on several of Shakespeare's plays. In this post we talk about the array of Florio's various works that we have in our collections.
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Adult Leisure Courses
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Join fellow life long learners on one of our Adult Leisure Courses.
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SBT objects go on loan to London
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Two objects from the SBT museum collection feature in the 'Shakespeare: Staging the World' exhibition at the British museum. This includes a 16th century map of Warwickshire, produced by Christopher Saxton, the earliest accurate map of Shakespeare's home county.
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The Music of the Fairies
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Fairy stories were a huge favourite in the songs and plays of Shakespeare's time. It is not surprising, then, that Shakespeare chose to make the music of the fairies an important part of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Reinventing Shakespeare's Birthplace
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After the purchase of the Birthplace, the property needed major renovations before it could be enjoyed by the public.
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A Textile Panel by Tibor Reich, 1969
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This joyful and vibrant textile panel was designed and produced by Tibor Reich to celebrate the 1969 Bicentenary of the Garrick Jubilee.
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1851 - Ira Aldridge Comes to Stratford
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In 1851 Ira Aldridge played at the Royal Shakespearean Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for eight days. During that time he visited Shakespeare's Birthplace twice and appeared in seven plays.