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#SaluteToStratford: Shakespeare and Welcombe

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Sylvia Morris

As their contribution to Shakespeare’s Birthday this year, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has created #SaluteToStratford, where people can share what makes Stratford special to them. Most people have just put up a photo and note about a favourite place, but … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and Greenwich

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

There is something special about the place where important events took place, no matter how long ago. Even where there are no remaining signs on the ground people still visit: perhaps the draw is that these sites make us use … Continue reading →

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Archaeology: uncovering Shakespeare’s England

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

I always used to think of archaeologists as people who dug up the remains of Roman settlements and prehistoric burial chambers, but in the last few years they seem to have been examining a much wider range of sites, working … Continue reading →

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Laying King Richard III to rest in Leicester

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

The remains of King Richard III will at last be reburied at Leicester Cathedral on Thursday 26 March 2015. Over 100 events and activities will begin on Friday 20 March and will continue over the weekend following the ceremony. It’s … Continue reading →

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Richard III: the story continues

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

The story of the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III in Leicester is, you can tell, going to run and run. On Wednesday 27 February at 9pm the More4 TV Channel screens another documentary, Richard III: the Unseen Story. The earlier … Continue reading →

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Richard III: an update on the King in the car park

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

Last week’s revelations about the discovery of Richard III’s skeleton in a car park in Leicester has sparked off a flurry of articles about the real and fictitious monarch. Here are links to just a few of them. First of all, … Continue reading →

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Richard III is found!

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

This morning Richard Buckley, head archaeologist at Leicester University, has stated that “beyond reasonable doubt”, they have reached the “sound academic conclusion” that they have found “Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England”. Richard’s death at the Battle of … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s school: new discoveries

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

This is the second post I’m writing about the new book, J R Mulryne’s The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford: Society, Religion, School and Stage, published by Ashgate. The first can be found here. The fame of this … Continue reading →

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Archaeology and Shakespeare: London, Leicester and Stratford

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

  Anyone going in search of Shakespeare’s London thirty years ago would have found little to satisfy them. The City and its surroundings has been occupied for hundreds, even thousands of years, and successive generations have built and rebuilt it. … Continue reading →

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