Regency Ball, Leamington Spa
Photograph by Mead Photography of guests at the Regency Ball in Leamington Spa. The Ball was held at the Regent Hotel on 6 November 1964.
Regency Ball, Leamington Spa, 1964
Black and white photographs.
This photograph depicts dancers at the Regency Ball, which was held at the Regent Hotel, Leamington Spa, on 6 November 1964.
Regent Hotel Booklet
This booklet was written by Frank Cridlan, the proprietor of the Regent Hotel, Leamington Spa. It was published for the unveiling, by Earl Spencer, of the Heritage Panel at the Regent Hotel, on 17 November ...
Ribbon
Framed piece of white ribbon made in Coventry with an embroidered crown motif and the initials V & A. The ribbon is the same as the one worn by Queen Victoria at her wedding, 1840.
Ribbon
Ribbon made in Coventry, c.1861. This is a length of ribbon celebrating the life of the Prince Consort, Prince Albert (1819 - 1861), showing two castles and a portrait of the prince woven in black. Prince ...
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 - Prayers for wisdom, p.89r.
Private prayers in Shakespeare's time.
Many members of the gentry and the nobility had ordained clergymen as part of their households, and had private indoor chapels, or churches in the grounds of ...
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 ...
Robert Burns Medal
English medal, 1859
Diameter 40mm
Medal struck to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Robert Burns. The obverse features the bust of Robert Burns with the inscription 'ROBERT BURNS CHIEF OF SCOTTISH ...
Robert Raikes Medal
English medal c.1880
Diameter 37mm
Medal struck in comemmoration of Robert Raikes and the Sunday School Movement. The obverse features the bust of Robert Raikes facing left within a central ring and ...
Roman Coin
Roman coin, c.330AD Diameter 13mm This commemorative coin for Constantine I was found at Chesterton Camp in Warwickshire. The obverse features the helmeted bust of Roma facing left wearing an imperial ...
Roman Coin
Roman Coin, c.330AD Diameter 15mm This commemorative coin for Constantine I was found at Chesterton Camp in Warwickshire. The obverse features the bust of Constantinopolis helmeted and facing right. The ...