Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, samplers were increasingly used by girls and young women to practise their embroidery technique
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.
November’s Picture of the Month depicts a scene from the 2003 production of this “problematic comedy”, set in 1940’s Vienna and directed by Sean Holmes.
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".
October’s Picture of the Month celebrates Halloween with a suitably ghoulish image from Michael Boyd’s 2004 production of Hamlet, featuring a truly scary ghost.
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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