Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - p.25, gardeners prepare their beds..
Gardening: a task known to Shakespeare
Many of Shakespeare’s scenes are set in gardens. The plays indicate a familiarity with the tasks of setting seeds, weeding and raising plants for pleasure ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - text, p.A1r, gardeners at work..
Shakespeare’s gardeners in Richard II tended their garden in this way.
Thomas Hill’s handbook which explains the tasks of a garden’s care includes this woodcut of an arbour which ...
Trade Token
These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to insufficient availability of official copper coinage. ...
Trade Token
These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to insufficient availability of official copper coinage. ...
Tysoe. Sun Rising Hill House
Sun Rising House, Tysoe. 1902
Vincze Quatercentenary Medals
Presentation box containing seven medals of various metals commissioned by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary, Quatercentenary, in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. ...
Vincze Shakespeare Medal
One of a set of four medallions commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. This side illustrates the scene in The Merry Wives of Windsor when Falstaff hides in a buck (i.e. laundry) basket with ...
Vincze Shakespeare Medal
One of a set of four medallions commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The reverse features a portrait of Shakespeare derived from Martin Droeshout's engraving of c.1623.
Designed by Paul ...
William Oakes Hunt
Copy of a studio photograph of William Oakes Hunt
William Shakespeare acquires a share of the Stratford tithes, 24 July 1605. Main membrane
Before the Reformation, the tithes of Stratford parish (a payment of a tenth part of all agricultural produce) belonged to the college of priests who served the parish church. At the Dissolution, some ...
William Shakespeare baptised, 26 April 1564
Entry in the parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, recording the baptism of William Shakespeare on 26 April 1564. The entry is in Latin: 'Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere' (William ...
William Shakespeare begins legal action against John Addenbrooke, 17 August 1608. Front
In the summer of 1608, William Shakespeare brought an action in the local Court of Record to recover a debt of £6 allegedly owed him by one John Addenbrooke, gentleman. He also claimed a further 24 shillings ...
William Shakespeare buried, 25 April 1616
Entry in the parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, recording the burial of William Shakespeare. He had died two days earlier, aged fifty-two. He is described as a gentleman, then ...
William Shakespeare buys 107 acres of land in Stratford, 1 May 1602
Shakespeare, once he had become a man of means, had clearly been toying with the idea of buying some land in or near Stratford since 1598, but it was not until 1602 that he acted, buying from a local ...
William Shakespeare buys New Place, May 1597
In May 1597, William Shakespeare purchased New Place from William Underhill. This was reputedly the second largest house in Stratford, and stood on the corner of Chapel Street and Chapel Lane. It had ...
William Shakespeare listed as a possible contributor to a local fund to improve the roads, 11 September 1611. Page 1
In the early seventeenth century, several attempts were made to bring forward legislation to improve the state of the roads. Money was needed to promote this and local subscription lists were opened. ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - binding view
A smart 19th century binding on a Shakespeare 'quarto'.
The ‘quarto’ editions of Shakespeare’s work were published as slim pamphlets. The original binding of this volume, would probably ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - bookplate
An owner’s bookplate in a Shakespeare ‘quarto’.
The ownership of books is frequently indicated by a label or ‘bookplate’ created for an individual owner. The label of ...