New Place Project Update, April 2016
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New Place Project Update (April 2016) - Hornbeams delivered to New Place gardens.
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All the latest Shakespeare news and behind the scenes action at SBT
1616 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!
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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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In order to make the items in our collections more accessible to the public, we're building a searchable online database! Check out the process we undertake in order to make this possible.
Jennifer Reid Behind the ScenesWhat'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 love