Tag: Shakespeare Archives and archivists‘Before Shakespeare’ at The National ArchivesThursday 26 July 2018Event: Wednesday 1 August 2018, 14:00 Before Shakespeare Tucked away somewhere in the temperature-controlled...Records and researchAuthors in the archivesTuesday 27 February 2018Following the success of our ‘Behind the Scenes’ repository tours we are currently running...Records and researchIs this the face of William Shakespeare?Thursday 27 October 2016The portrait shows a balding man, rather askew of eye, wearing a white lace...Archives and archivistsTransforming Archives: Shakespeare Birthplace TrustWednesday 18 May 2016I have been working at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, as part of The National...Records and researchKidnapped to order: child actors in Shakespeare’s dayThursday 12 May 2016Exploring some of the more extreme methods children’s companies went to in order to...Records and researchFastolf not ‘Falstaff’: the soldier behind Shakespeare’s mythWednesday 4 May 2016The Falstaff of Shakespeare’s plays bears little resemblance to what we understand of the...Records and researchPaying for the privilege: a new Shakespeare discoverySaturday 23 April 2016One third of a pound does not go far today, but in 1603 it...Behind the scenesThe Bard in the bookshopTuesday 12 April 2016We have stocked up on a range of titles on all aspects of the...Records and researchShakespeare’s will: a new interpretationTuesday 5 April 2016I’ve been looking in detail at one of our treasures: Shakespeare’s original will. And...Behind the scenesConserving Shakespeare’s willMonday 4 April 2016The conservation team had to make a difficult decision: should we carry out renewed...Records and researchShakespeare’s daughters and female inheritanceFriday 11 March 2016Legacy was a major concern for Shakespeare - he seems to have had the...Archives and archivistsAn update from the Keeper’s GalleryTuesday 12 January 2016Be it through the rotating document and facsimile displays, our interactive Turning The Pages... 1 2 »