Tercentenary Medal
This white metal medal commemorates the three hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck c. 1864 by Ottley of Birmingham.
Shown on the medal's reverse is Shakespeare's Birthplace, ...
Tercentenary Medal
One of a pair of commemorative medals struck in 1916, for the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre for the Tercentenary. Designed by Dorothy Dick
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth ...
Tercentenary Medal
One of a pair of commemorative medals struck in 1916, for the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre for the Tercentenary. Designed by Dorothy Dick
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary by Pinches of London.
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth, an event marked by festivals in London ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary, 1864 by Pinches of London.
The quotation "Each change of many coloured life he drew, exhausted worlds and then imagined new" is from Samuel Johnson's Prologue ...
'The noate of corn and malte', 4 February 1598
A list of Stratford townsmen giving details of how much corn and malt they held in their barns.
During the mid 1590s there was a series of disastrous harvests due to bad weather. Thousands faced near ...
Thomas Greene's Diary, 15 - 22 November 1614
Late in 1614, there was a controversial proposal to enclose some of the old open fields to the east and north-east of Stratford. As a titheholder, and possibly a freeholder as well, William Shakespeare ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - men enjoying wine and fruit, title-page of part 2.
Characters in Shakespeare enjoyed an arbour in their garden scenes.
The practice of enjoying the out-of-doors over a simple meal, or a drink out-of-doors on a summer’s evening may have been the ...
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. ...
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 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 ...