What's Love Got to Do With it?
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Conduct books from past centuries always reveal fascinating mindsets of different societies. For Valentine's day, we're taking a look into William Whateley's "A Bride-Bush".
Jennifer Reid In the Vault loveCopyright of the artist
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Colour our Collections
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For #ColorOurCollection, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has compiled images from our collections in a downloadable PDF file that you can print out and use as your very own colouring in book!
Jennifer Reid Behind the ScenesAn 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.
Joanna Munholland Hidden Treasures In the VaultPersonal 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.
Joanna Munholland Hidden Treasures Tudor LifeMichael Bogdanov and the Never-Ending Labels!
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Flossie Baldock has been working on making the Michael Bogdanov Collection here at the Trust more accessible for the public, and collaborated with Maddie Cox to put together a Michael Bogdanov display for the Winter School.
Flossie Baldock Behind the ScenesA New Face in the Reading Room
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Jessie takes a look at some of the portraits of Shakespeare from our Collections, and examines the desire we humans have to look upon his image, even if we can never be certain as to exactly how the great playwright might have looked.
Jessie Petheram Behind the Scenes2015 in the Reading Room!
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At the close of 2015, our Reading Room reflects on all that has occurred over the past year.
Victoria Joynes Tales from the Reading RoomShakespeare Documented
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Shakespeare Documented will be the largest and most authoritative free online public collection of primary-source materials that document William Shakespeare's life and work.
Jennifer Reid ExhibitionThe Visit of a Member of Parliament and an Author
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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, specifically that of Chandros Wren-Hosk
Norma Hampson Birthplace Visitors In the VaultTime Travel in the Reading Room: Back to the Future Day
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To celebrate Back to the Future Day, take a look at these pictures of Stratford-upon-Avon taken in 1985, 1955, and 1885!
Madeleine Cox Tales from the Reading Room Stratford-upon-Avon