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Picture of the Month - July 2011
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For July's Picture of the Month, we're looking at an image from the RSC's 1984 production of 'Love's Labour's Lost'.
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Picture of the Month - September 2012
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Malcolm Davies captures perfectly the humour, wit, and intelligence which David Tennant brought to his portrayal of the role of the student prince, Hamlet, in 2008.
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Picture of the Month - November 2012
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In 1985, the RSC staged a wonderfully funny Merry Wives, directed by Bill Alexander and set in 1959, a period often referred to as the “New Elizabethan Age”.
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Picture of the Month - July 2013
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Dame Judi Dench as the Countess in Gregory Doran's production of 'All's Well that Ends Well' in 2003 at the RSC.
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Ellen Ann Willmott: a Woman of Horticultural Destiny
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A blog in recognition of the 160th birthday of the Trust's first female gardener, Ellen Ann Willmott, a splendid horticulturalist who shaped the gardens at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Recording History with the Camera: Sir John Benjamin Stone
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Sir John Benjamin Stone was many things - mayor, activist, etc - but he was also a proficient photographer. In our archives we've found a collection of 80 photographs taken by Sir Stone, including captured moments of Stratford-upon-Avon in the 19th century.
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Picture of the Month - June 2012
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In anticipation of Midsummer, we're looking at Malcolm Davies's photograph of Titania's bower from Adrian Noble's 1994 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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Solving Mysteries in the SBT Archives: Ethel Webling and Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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A hidden treasure is discovered in the depths of our Rare Books strongroom: a one-of-a-kind edition of "Julius Caesar" with no backstory...
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Dorothea Abbott: Librarian in the Land Army
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A visit to the Imperial War Museum to study the Women's Land Army reveals the story of a woman named Dorothea Abbott - a "Librarian in the Land Army", as her book is entitled.
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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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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.