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A new opportunity to see our amazing collection up close, and chat to experts over a traditional English cream tea
Madeleine Cox Tales from the Reading RoomA new opportunity to see our amazing collection up close, and chat to experts over a traditional English cream tea
Madeleine Cox Tales from the Reading RoomEach year the 'Mop Fair' returns to Stratford-upon-Avon. Sofia Wood explores the history of the fair that started out as a hiring opportunity for casual workers.
Sofia Wood Stratford-upon-AvonExplore material from the collection on the theme of women and the right to vote.
Kelsey Ridge juliet filesTo mark German Unity Day, Helen Hopkins explores the importance of Shakespeare to the unification effort of nineteenth-century Germany.
Helen Hopkins Translating ShakespeareDusk creeps in earlier-and-earlier, leaves turn colour minute-by-minute. September - a month of change, harvesting and clearing.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensExtracts from the diary of an adventurous Jane Thompson, written on her voyage to America in 1818.
Philippa Vandome Tales From The Reading Room Heritage Open DaysThe third and final workshop with our German and Swedish students as part of CultureShake, which has been awarded the European Year of Cultural Heritage Label
Lisa Peter CultureShakeDiscover the lives and works of American actresses who performed on the RSC stage with Brooke Tobler.
Brooke Tobler juliet filesSome of the most infamous love poems in English literature are addressed to the ‘fair youth’ but who is this mysterious figure that inspired 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
Jessica-May Smith Shakespeare's Life Shakespeare's WorksStaff at Mary Arden's Farm attempted to make bread using only sixteenth-century farming techniques.
Sam Gull Mary Arden's Farm