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
Shakespeare makes reference to the act of dressing several times in his plays and this blog discusses a well known item of clothing from the period: the bodice.
The Stoneleigh manuscript collection can tell us much about how the upper classes, and even sometimes how royalty, lived and built relationships with one another in the 19th century.
White embroidered linen played an integral role in the early modern death ritual, as a tool in the spiritual preparation of an individual for the afterlife.
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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