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Shakespeareana No.1 – A Holiday Jig-saw

Catherine Simpson and Rebecca Wormald discuss a jig-saw from the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The post Shakespeareana No.1 – A Holiday Jig-saw appeared first on Finding Shakespeare.

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Shakespeareana No.2 – A Mulberry Wood Tankard

Rebecca Wormald and Rosalyn Sklar discuss an 18th Century Mulberry Wood Tankard from the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The post Shakespeareana No.2 – A Mulberry Wood Tankard...

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Shakespeareana No.3 – A Textile Panel by Tibor Reich, 1969

This joyful and vibrant textile panel is the most recent acquisition into the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. It was designed and produced by Tibor Reich to celebrate the 1969...

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Shakespeareana No.4 – Tibor Reich and the Shakespeare Centre, 1964

The Age of Kings by Tibor Ltd, 1964. This photograph is a detail from a set of stage curtains that were designed for the new Shakespeare Centre. In the last blog, we looked at a textile panel created...

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Tibor Reich Around the Globe

  Henry VIII and his Wives by Tibor Reich This week’s blog tells the incredible, globe-trotting tale of how a particular Tibor Reich cloth came into the museum collection via Afghanistan and Pakistan....

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Henry Ireton

This week’s blog is a special video for Parliament Week which runs from the 19th to the 25th November this year.  In it, Rosalyn Sklar will discuss the life and career of Henry Ireton (1611-1651) and...

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Sir Walter Scott at Shakespeare’s Tomb

On the 15th August 1771 Walter Scott was born in College Wynd in the Old Town of Edinburgh.  Scott achieved popular success as a poet and novelist during his lifetime.  He is remembered today as the...

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Stratford’s Ceremonial Maces

The Stratford Corporation Mace, c.1552-53   The ceremonial mace has been a symbolic object for hundreds of years.  It represents power and authority.  At one time the mace would have been a practical...

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Susanna and the Elders

  Susanna and the Elders, attributed to the school of Frans Floris, c.1550   Susanna and the Elders is a story from the Old Testament book of Daniel, but is only present in the Roman Catholic and...

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Sir George Carew

Portrait of Sir George Carew (1555-1629), English School.   Visitors to Nash’s House will recognise this portrait of Sir George Carew (1555-1629) which hung in the staircase there until recently.  The...

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