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Joe Cocks Studios
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Ian Dickinson is a professional photographer with some fascinating insights on Malcolm Davies, photographer at Joe Cocks Studio in the 1980s, and the techniques which lie behind our photographic collections.
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New Catalogue for 2016
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A new online catalogue for the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is being launched!
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An Embroidered King James Bible
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Joanna Munholland takes a look at an embroidered Holy Bible (King James I Version) from 1629 that we hold in our Collections, and talks about the influence of the Bible on Shakespeare's works.
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Following Best Practice: an audit of the Museum Collection
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Volunteers Helen and Victoria have undertaken an audit of the museum collection stored at the Shakespeare Centre. In this blog they reflect on their project and let us in on some ‘behind the scenes’ best practice museum procedures.
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
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In this video from the Collections, Anna Griffiths discusses John Massey Wright's watercolour painting (from early 19th century) of the famous scene in "The Winter's Tale", wherein Antigonus is told to "exit, pursued by a bear".
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‘The Juliet Files’: Representations of Women in the SBT Collections
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Introducing a new blog series exploring women in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collection.
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Personal Hygiene - Tudor Style!
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Despite the common belief that Tudors were unhygienic, when in reality they were very attentive about their levels of cleanliness - just in ways that are different to our own times.
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Media Assets
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Download our latest press packs. Please contact the Press Office for further information.
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Working at SBT
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Find out more about what makes the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust an amazing place to work
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Exclusive new scarves inspired by our collection
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This month we launch a new range of scarves inspired by beautiful books and objects in the Trust’s collections.
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A local inspiration for "The Tempest"?
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In 1588, an enormous storm that hit Stratford-upon-Avon caused a massive flood that affected towns all along the River Avon.
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A Visit From Ira Aldridge
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. Meet Ira Aldridge, a prominent African-American Shakespearian actor from the Victorian era.
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Chief Maungwudaus visits the Birthplace in 1848
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. In this case, Chief Maungwudaus of the Chippewa tribe.
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Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. In this case, we have a group of soldiers.
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A Visit from "The Players"
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. In this post, meet the mysterious "Players".
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–1864
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books, one of them being "The Scarlet Letter" author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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The Visit of the Artist Frank Stone
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. Today, meet the water-colourist Frank Stone.
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William Henry Chippendale (1801-1888)
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. In this case, we meet William Chippendale, a well-established actor in the Victorian era.
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An American in Stratford-upon-Avon
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In honour of Thanksgiving, we're highlighting an early Stratford-upon-Avon connection with America: specifically, the very first visitor recorded in July of the oldest surviving visitors’ book in our collection was TH Perkins of Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Visit of a Member of Parliament and an Author
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books, specifically that of Chandros Wren-Hoskyns of Wroxall Abbey and Charles Holte Bracebridge of Atherstone Hall.