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Magical Christmas workshops with Stratford Schools
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This year the staff at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and New Place had a little extra help with decorating the houses.
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Fun Palaces 2018
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Read about this year's Fun Palaces event at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, where we celebrated with free arts and science activities for all ages!
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Artsmark Partnership
Education Schools and CPD Artsmark Partnership & Arts Award
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is proud to be an Artsmark Partner supporting primary schools to be creative and using the arts to enhance and inspire children and young people’s education.
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Gastrell on Trial – Victim or Villain?
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At the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust this summer, 'the man who destroyed Shakespeare's New Place' returned to defend his legacy to New Place visitors and help them see him as possibly just a victim of history.
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Female Suffrage in the SBT Collection
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Explore material from the collection on the theme of women and the right to vote.
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Creative Digitisation
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Bringing objects from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust archives to life using digital images, video recordings, audio, and other creative digitisation methods.
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Picture of the Month - April 2012
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In 1993, director Sam Mendes envisaged 'The Tempest' as a play about theatre, where Prospero’s magic was portrayed specifically as theatre magic.
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Picture of the Month - May 2012
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This photo depicts the 1960 production of The Winter's Tale, a highly regarded production conjuring up a “mythical Renaissance, a world in which anything could happen and anything did”.
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Picture of the Month - February 2013
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February’s photo shows Berowne (David Tennant) reading his sonnet addressed to his beloved Rosaline, from 'Love’s Labour's Lost', directed by Greg Doran in 2008.
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Picture of the Month - January 2012
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A photo from David Thacker’s post-1789 revolutionary France production of "Coriolanus" at the RSC in 1994.
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#SaluteToStratford
Shakespeare's Birthday
Celebrate the town of Shakespeare's birth in a #SaluteToStratford
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The Winter is at Hand...
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W. W. Quatremain was an artist who grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and consequently painted several local scenes, including Palmer's Farm, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and Harvard House.
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John Harvard and Stratford-upon-Avon: 'Friendship between Two Nations'
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Today is the birthday of John Harvard, son of a Stratford-upon-Avon native and the founder of Harvard University.
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Heath Robinson's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
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Despite Heath Robinson being often synonymous with unnecessarily complicated and complex machinery, his work in depicting scenes of Shakespeare's plays hearkens back to his days as a young artist fresh out of university.
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National Gardening Week
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In celebration of National Gardening Week, we'd like to take the opportunity to give you a taste of what we have in store for Heritage Open Days this year.
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Hamlet in Afrikaans
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This donation is a copy of Hamlet translated into Afrikaans from 1945. It is illustrated and signed by actors in Pretoria.
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Sir Frank Benson and the town of Stratford-upon-Avon
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Find out about actor and manager, Sir Frank Benson, and his relationship with the townsfolk of Stratford-upon-Avon, in this blog post inspired by the 'Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war' - The First World War, Shakespeare, and Stratford exhibition at Hall's Croft.
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The Book World's Jekyll and Hyde: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was a notorious antiquarian who collected books but also had a habit of cutting them up and removing his favourite pages.
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A First Folio Facsimile from Japan
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A donation from Meisei University in Tokyo, Japan is a First Folio Facsimile that, though just a reproduction, looks very much like it's the "real thing".
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Gender Pay Gap Report
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Our report on how large the pay gap is between male and female employees at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust