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.
Madeleine Cox Tales from the Reading RoomCopyright of the artist
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The Perjured: Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo
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Magicians Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo were famous rivals because no one knew who was of true Chinese descent. However, their signatures in the Shakespeare Birthplace Visitors' Books uncover the mystery of their proper identities...
Maosheng Hu Tales from the Reading Room Birthplace VisitorsNew Place Project Update, April 2016
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New Place Project Update (April 2016) - Hornbeams delivered to New Place gardens.
New Place1616 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.
Victoria Joynes The Legacy of William ShakespeareThe Visit of the Artist Frank Stone
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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. Meet the water-colourist Frank Stone.
Norma Hampson Birthplace Visitors In the VaultConservation To Nash's House
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As work is continued on building Shakespeare's New Place, the historic conservation work to Nash’s House has finished!
Shakespeare's New Place New PlaceA Gift from the Queen
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This Basque language translation of Hamlet was donated to the library of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre by Queen Elizabeth II on permanent loan.
Mareike Doleschal Books Donating Shakespeare prospero files“At Home Abroad:” The First “Chinese Visitors” to Shakespeare Birthplace
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Maosheng Hu has been looking through the early Birthplace visitor books to find details of Chinese visitors. This blog explores William Cartwright from 1885.
Maosheng Hu Tales from the Reading RoomA First Folio Facsimile from Japan
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This recent donation of a facsimile First Folio comes all the way from Meisei University in Tokyo, Japan.
Mareike Doleschal Books Donating Shakespeare prospero filesNew Place Bench Design
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Seating for the New Place garden is being built by bench designer Armando Magnino to surround the main sculpture, His Mind’s Eye; a five metre tall bronze tree.
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