If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly

What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,

Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar

That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

(The Tempest Act…

Today’s 100 Objects post was written by Peter Hewitt, Doctoral Researcher in History at the University of Birmingham.

This week’s object is a cast-iron fireback made in 1585.  It is currently on…

This month marks the first public launch of our Eye Shakespeare app. This version, which we are calling our Live BETA Test version, will be available to the public on…

The Wish You Were Here Challenge!  Send us a postcard!

This week we were happy to get our first postcard of the year – from a regular reader who was visiting the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.

Chatting to colleagues, it dawned on me that I am not alone in finding myself drawn to visit libraries and archives as well as the more usual museums on my travels.  Last year I visited the Library of Congress and, after getting lost in the labyrinth of corridors,  was strangely thrilled to have my photo taken and be deemed to have a ‘serious’ enough…

You may have heard the rumour... As a young man Shakespeare was caught poaching deer and locked up in prison.

The fact is that after his marriage to Anne Hathaway at…