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Obituary

An obituary from a newspaper mounted on a small piece of card. The clipping gives brief details about Mr Thomas Garthwaite, of Ecclesechan, who was tailor to Thomas Carlyle.

Photograph Album

A photograph album from 5 Lansdowne Terrace / 5 Willes Road, Leamington Spa. The album was used by the Whitehead family and contains 83 photographs and an in memoriam card for Walter Whitehead. It dates ...

Population explosion

This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...

Population Explosion - detail

This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - A corpse awaits burial, p.89r, detail.

A body in its linen burial cloth, or shroud, and laid in a tomb: a possible source for Shakespeare. William Shakespeare, in 1605, purchased an interest in the local tithes, and so automatically became ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Baptism woodcut,, p.61v. detail

An Infant Baptism: Shakespeare was baptised 23 April 1564. William Shakespeare, the first boy, but third child of John and Mary Shakespeare, was baptised in the local parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - infant woodcut detail, p.100v.

Infant mortality: Shakespeare's older sisters died young. William's two older sisters both died in infancy. For Elizabethans the death of a child was a common occurrence. William's younger brothers, ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Life and death, p.122v.

Death in everyday life in Shakespeare's time. Life and death went hand-in-hand everywhere in Shakespeare’s England, where medical knowledge was very limited, and most illness depended on traditional ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Momento mori woodcut, p.89v, detail.

A possible source for the Capulet tomb. The end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes place in the Capulet family tomb where the apparently dead Juliet has been laid. Such places had a ghostly reputation, ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Momento mori woodcuts, p.89v.

The everyday presence of death in Shakespeare's England. Much of Richard Day’s prayerbook has illustrations which remind readers of the everyday presence of death in the 16th century. ‘Thou ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for family use, p.61v.

The Shakespeare family in Elizabethan England. Richard Day's popular book of prayers intended for personal use by Elizabethans, was re-published several times after it was first printed in 1578. Its ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - reminders of mortality, p.112r.

‘Momenti Mori’: reminders to Shakespeare's contemporaries. The ‘momenti mori’ (reminders of death) are skulls and skeletons that may also have provided inspiration for dramatic ...

Rugby. Henry Lister

Mr Henry Lister in his bathchair in Rugby. Mr Lister was the first telegraph clerk at the L.M.S Station. This photograph was taken when Mr Lister was 100 years old in 1930.

Rugby. Mr Wilson and a wedding group

A group photographed at the wedding of Mr Wilson, presumably at Rugby. 1900s

Shakespeare's daughter baptised, 26 May 1583

Entry in the parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon (later marked with a cross), recording the baptism of Shakespeare's first child, Susanna. William Shakespeare had married Ann ...

Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, buried, 11 August 1596

Entry in the parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, recording the burial of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, one of his twin children. He was eleven years old. The cause of death is not ...

Shakespeare's twin children baptised, 2 February 1585 - detail

Entry in the parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, recording the baptism of Shakespeare's children, Hamnet and Judith. The register does not actually describe them as twins, but there ...

Stratford's earliest parish register

The earliest parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, containing the baptism and burial entries for William Shakespeare and his family. It bears the date 1600 on its cover, the year ...