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The Gunpowder Plot – Who were the women?
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Discover the women behind the Gunpowder Plot.
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Women in the Stratford Court of Record
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Learn about representations of women in Stratford’s Court of Record with Collections volunteer Phil Spinks.
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Almost There: Shakespeare in Danish
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A blog from Niels Brunse who has translated nearly all of Shakespeare's works into Danish.
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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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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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Richard Burton as Hamlet
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For Shakespeare's 450th birthday, we're going back 50 years to see what was done for his 400th birthday celebrations. In 1964, renowned Shakespearian actor Richard Burton took on the role of Hamlet, which went on to be one of the most acclaimed performances of the character.
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Here’s to Shakespeare
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For William Shakespeare's 450th birthday celebration, we're hosting a blog series to highlight the events that took place around the world for the Bard's 400th birthday back in 1964. Here Helen Cook delves into alcoholic references in Shakespeare's plays.
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Did the Circus Come to Town?
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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, such as the Hengler's Circus Company.
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Meet the Distinguished Visitors to Shakespeare's Birthplace
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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, including one Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the pre-Raphaelite artist.
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Shakespeare and His World: Top Ten Objects (Part 1)
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Take a look at the first five 'Objects of the Week' of the MOOC 'Shakespeare and His World' course taught by Jennifer Reid and Professor Jonathan Bate in this two-part blog post.
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Shakespeare in 100 objects: Memento Mori Seal
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Read about Tudor mourning rings, which were sometimes bequeathed to family members or close friends in a will
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Warming Pan
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A warm bed necessitated the use of a warming pan like the one discussed in this post , a seventeenth-century example in the collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Painted Cloth
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Elizabeth Sharrett looks in detail at a rare 17th century painted cloth from our collection
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Candlestick
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A rush-candle was the most basic and crudest form of lighting in Shakespeare’s time.
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1616 was only the beginning: Shakespeare's Folios
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The first recordings of Shakespeare's works, called Folios, reveal important aspects of his life and times.
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Selling Off Their Heritage
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Part four in a series about the rise and decline of the Hathaway family and their property. Here we learn about the story behind 'Shakespeare's Courting Chair.'
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William Russell Sedgfield 1826 - 1902
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The photographer William Russell Sedgfield visited Shakespeare's Birthplace in 1859 and signed the visitor book
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Bram and the Guv’nor: ‘Who knew archives could be so much fun?’
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In May, we hosted performances of 'Bram and the Guv'nor', a play by Jefny Ashcroft and directed by Jonathan Collings, based on the RSC's Bram Stoker Collection.
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Avis Hodgson: from actress to nurse
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Avis Hodgson and Kathleen Talbot were nurses at Clopton House when it was a hospital during the First World War.
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Shakespeare’s Lovers in the Museum Collection
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We take a look at a few of the objects in the museum collection which show images of some of Shakespeare's pairs of lovers.