The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
@shakespearebtrust.bsky.social
We care for Shakespeare's family homes and share the love of his work, life, and times from his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
www.shakespeare.org.uk
www.shakespeare.org.uk
Join us online next week when we'll be in conversation with Dame Janet Suzman about Queen Cleopatra, one of Shakespeare's most famous female characters.
👉 Book your free space tinyurl.com/muzawrxj
📆 11 June 2025, 5pm
Part of The Women Who Made Shakespeare.
👉 Book your free space tinyurl.com/muzawrxj
📆 11 June 2025, 5pm
Part of The Women Who Made Shakespeare.
June 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Join us online next week when we'll be in conversation with Dame Janet Suzman about Queen Cleopatra, one of Shakespeare's most famous female characters.
👉 Book your free space tinyurl.com/muzawrxj
📆 11 June 2025, 5pm
Part of The Women Who Made Shakespeare.
👉 Book your free space tinyurl.com/muzawrxj
📆 11 June 2025, 5pm
Part of The Women Who Made Shakespeare.
🎉 Wishing our Honorary President, Professor Sir Stanley Wells, a happy 95th birthday🎈
May 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎉 Wishing our Honorary President, Professor Sir Stanley Wells, a happy 95th birthday🎈
📣 New Exhibition focusing on Stratford’s wider heritage to be located at Harvard House
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Stratford Society have today announced that Harvard House will play host to a new, temporary exhibition and community consultation space this summer.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Stratford Society have today announced that Harvard House will play host to a new, temporary exhibition and community consultation space this summer.
May 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📣 New Exhibition focusing on Stratford’s wider heritage to be located at Harvard House
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Stratford Society have today announced that Harvard House will play host to a new, temporary exhibition and community consultation space this summer.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Stratford Society have today announced that Harvard House will play host to a new, temporary exhibition and community consultation space this summer.
📣 Visitor Update – 16/05/25 📣
Due to circumstances beyond our control there will be no access to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage for the remainder of the day.
Due to circumstances beyond our control there will be no access to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage for the remainder of the day.
May 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
📣 Visitor Update – 16/05/25 📣
Due to circumstances beyond our control there will be no access to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage for the remainder of the day.
Due to circumstances beyond our control there will be no access to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage for the remainder of the day.
May #ResearchConversation
Join us online tomorrow night as we welcome Prof. Woods on the shifts between friends, enemies and lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
👉 Book your free space: tinyurl.com/4ya42d33
📆 14 May 2025, 5pm
Part of 'The Women Who Made Shakespeare'.
Join us online tomorrow night as we welcome Prof. Woods on the shifts between friends, enemies and lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
👉 Book your free space: tinyurl.com/4ya42d33
📆 14 May 2025, 5pm
Part of 'The Women Who Made Shakespeare'.
May 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
May #ResearchConversation
Join us online tomorrow night as we welcome Prof. Woods on the shifts between friends, enemies and lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
👉 Book your free space: tinyurl.com/4ya42d33
📆 14 May 2025, 5pm
Part of 'The Women Who Made Shakespeare'.
Join us online tomorrow night as we welcome Prof. Woods on the shifts between friends, enemies and lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
👉 Book your free space: tinyurl.com/4ya42d33
📆 14 May 2025, 5pm
Part of 'The Women Who Made Shakespeare'.
'If music be the food of love, play on' 🎵
Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 1
Don’t worry if you missed our silent disco this weekend (inspired by the Women Who Made Shakespeare) – you can now listen to the soundtracks on Spotify!
🎧Heroes: tinyurl.com/2vcnw6uh
🎧Anti-Heroes: tinyurl.com/589up5na
Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 1
Don’t worry if you missed our silent disco this weekend (inspired by the Women Who Made Shakespeare) – you can now listen to the soundtracks on Spotify!
🎧Heroes: tinyurl.com/2vcnw6uh
🎧Anti-Heroes: tinyurl.com/589up5na
April 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
'If music be the food of love, play on' 🎵
Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 1
Don’t worry if you missed our silent disco this weekend (inspired by the Women Who Made Shakespeare) – you can now listen to the soundtracks on Spotify!
🎧Heroes: tinyurl.com/2vcnw6uh
🎧Anti-Heroes: tinyurl.com/589up5na
Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 1
Don’t worry if you missed our silent disco this weekend (inspired by the Women Who Made Shakespeare) – you can now listen to the soundtracks on Spotify!
🎧Heroes: tinyurl.com/2vcnw6uh
🎧Anti-Heroes: tinyurl.com/589up5na
📣New Exhibition Coming to Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Becoming Shakespeare blends historical narratives and immersive storytelling to guide visitors through an engaging experience that places Stratford-upon-Avon at the heart of what made William Shakespeare the globally recognised artist he became.
Becoming Shakespeare blends historical narratives and immersive storytelling to guide visitors through an engaging experience that places Stratford-upon-Avon at the heart of what made William Shakespeare the globally recognised artist he became.
April 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📣New Exhibition Coming to Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Becoming Shakespeare blends historical narratives and immersive storytelling to guide visitors through an engaging experience that places Stratford-upon-Avon at the heart of what made William Shakespeare the globally recognised artist he became.
Becoming Shakespeare blends historical narratives and immersive storytelling to guide visitors through an engaging experience that places Stratford-upon-Avon at the heart of what made William Shakespeare the globally recognised artist he became.
Anne Hathaway's Cottage has been awarded a CIE Tours Visit Award of Excellence.
The CIE Awards of Excellence celebrate UK hoteliers and tourist experience operators who have been singled out by the 12,000 visitors who came to the UK with CIE Tours in 2024.
Congrats to all of the award winners! 👏
The CIE Awards of Excellence celebrate UK hoteliers and tourist experience operators who have been singled out by the 12,000 visitors who came to the UK with CIE Tours in 2024.
Congrats to all of the award winners! 👏
April 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Anne Hathaway's Cottage has been awarded a CIE Tours Visit Award of Excellence.
The CIE Awards of Excellence celebrate UK hoteliers and tourist experience operators who have been singled out by the 12,000 visitors who came to the UK with CIE Tours in 2024.
Congrats to all of the award winners! 👏
The CIE Awards of Excellence celebrate UK hoteliers and tourist experience operators who have been singled out by the 12,000 visitors who came to the UK with CIE Tours in 2024.
Congrats to all of the award winners! 👏
📢 New job opportunity: Team Leaders
Join us as a Team Leader working across the Shakespeare family homes to deliver an excellent visitor experience and oversee aspects of day-to-day visitor operations.
Find out more and apply now: tinyurl.com/mrxxyp28
Join us as a Team Leader working across the Shakespeare family homes to deliver an excellent visitor experience and oversee aspects of day-to-day visitor operations.
Find out more and apply now: tinyurl.com/mrxxyp28
April 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
📢 New job opportunity: Team Leaders
Join us as a Team Leader working across the Shakespeare family homes to deliver an excellent visitor experience and oversee aspects of day-to-day visitor operations.
Find out more and apply now: tinyurl.com/mrxxyp28
Join us as a Team Leader working across the Shakespeare family homes to deliver an excellent visitor experience and oversee aspects of day-to-day visitor operations.
Find out more and apply now: tinyurl.com/mrxxyp28
📢 Exciting job opportunity: Grants & Trusts Manager
Be part of our passionate and dynamic Development team and play a pivotal role in securing funding for a variety of exciting projects.
Closing 📆: 27 April 2025
🔎 Find out more and apply now: bit.ly/3XNGV86
Be part of our passionate and dynamic Development team and play a pivotal role in securing funding for a variety of exciting projects.
Closing 📆: 27 April 2025
🔎 Find out more and apply now: bit.ly/3XNGV86
April 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📢 Exciting job opportunity: Grants & Trusts Manager
Be part of our passionate and dynamic Development team and play a pivotal role in securing funding for a variety of exciting projects.
Closing 📆: 27 April 2025
🔎 Find out more and apply now: bit.ly/3XNGV86
Be part of our passionate and dynamic Development team and play a pivotal role in securing funding for a variety of exciting projects.
Closing 📆: 27 April 2025
🔎 Find out more and apply now: bit.ly/3XNGV86
📢 New role alert: Retail Sales Assistant
We are looking for an enthusiastic retail team member to help make a visit to the Shakespeare family homes a memorable one.
Closing 📆: Sunday 13 April 2025
Find out more and apply now 👉 bit.ly/4ibmWrg
We are looking for an enthusiastic retail team member to help make a visit to the Shakespeare family homes a memorable one.
Closing 📆: Sunday 13 April 2025
Find out more and apply now 👉 bit.ly/4ibmWrg
April 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢 New role alert: Retail Sales Assistant
We are looking for an enthusiastic retail team member to help make a visit to the Shakespeare family homes a memorable one.
Closing 📆: Sunday 13 April 2025
Find out more and apply now 👉 bit.ly/4ibmWrg
We are looking for an enthusiastic retail team member to help make a visit to the Shakespeare family homes a memorable one.
Closing 📆: Sunday 13 April 2025
Find out more and apply now 👉 bit.ly/4ibmWrg
Join us online next week for our April #ResearchConversation when we’ll be in conversation with Dame Judi Dench on ‘Playing Shakespeare’s Women’ and delving into her enduring love and knowledge of Shakespeare. 🎭
📆 9 April 🕙 5-6pm
Free online event. 👉 Book your space > tinyurl.com/yyu898h2
📆 9 April 🕙 5-6pm
Free online event. 👉 Book your space > tinyurl.com/yyu898h2
April 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Join us online next week for our April #ResearchConversation when we’ll be in conversation with Dame Judi Dench on ‘Playing Shakespeare’s Women’ and delving into her enduring love and knowledge of Shakespeare. 🎭
📆 9 April 🕙 5-6pm
Free online event. 👉 Book your space > tinyurl.com/yyu898h2
📆 9 April 🕙 5-6pm
Free online event. 👉 Book your space > tinyurl.com/yyu898h2
A Day With… Much Ado About Nothing 🎭
Enjoy illuminating conversation with our Shakespeare specialists and share ideas with other enthusiasts.
📆 15 April 2025 | 🕙 10am – 4.30pm | 📍 Hall’s Croft | 🎟️ Tickets £55
Book your place 👉 tinyurl.com/34x8j7tx
Enjoy illuminating conversation with our Shakespeare specialists and share ideas with other enthusiasts.
📆 15 April 2025 | 🕙 10am – 4.30pm | 📍 Hall’s Croft | 🎟️ Tickets £55
Book your place 👉 tinyurl.com/34x8j7tx
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A Day With… Much Ado About Nothing 🎭
Enjoy illuminating conversation with our Shakespeare specialists and share ideas with other enthusiasts.
📆 15 April 2025 | 🕙 10am – 4.30pm | 📍 Hall’s Croft | 🎟️ Tickets £55
Book your place 👉 tinyurl.com/34x8j7tx
Enjoy illuminating conversation with our Shakespeare specialists and share ideas with other enthusiasts.
📆 15 April 2025 | 🕙 10am – 4.30pm | 📍 Hall’s Croft | 🎟️ Tickets £55
Book your place 👉 tinyurl.com/34x8j7tx
We’re excited to be taking part in THE HERDS! 🌍
A new project from The Walk Productions, @theherds.bsky.social will feature over a hundred life-size animal puppets, created from renewable and recyclable materials, journeying 12,000 miles through Africa and Europe.
A new project from The Walk Productions, @theherds.bsky.social will feature over a hundred life-size animal puppets, created from renewable and recyclable materials, journeying 12,000 miles through Africa and Europe.
March 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We’re excited to be taking part in THE HERDS! 🌍
A new project from The Walk Productions, @theherds.bsky.social will feature over a hundred life-size animal puppets, created from renewable and recyclable materials, journeying 12,000 miles through Africa and Europe.
A new project from The Walk Productions, @theherds.bsky.social will feature over a hundred life-size animal puppets, created from renewable and recyclable materials, journeying 12,000 miles through Africa and Europe.
📣 New Blog Alert 📣
In this new blog, members of the SBT Collections team reflect on the importance of identifying, preserving and sharing records of women’s lived experience.
Read the full blog now 👉 bit.ly/4bU05Pb
#womenshistorymonth #thewomenwhomadeshakespeare
In this new blog, members of the SBT Collections team reflect on the importance of identifying, preserving and sharing records of women’s lived experience.
Read the full blog now 👉 bit.ly/4bU05Pb
#womenshistorymonth #thewomenwhomadeshakespeare
March 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣 New Blog Alert 📣
In this new blog, members of the SBT Collections team reflect on the importance of identifying, preserving and sharing records of women’s lived experience.
Read the full blog now 👉 bit.ly/4bU05Pb
#womenshistorymonth #thewomenwhomadeshakespeare
In this new blog, members of the SBT Collections team reflect on the importance of identifying, preserving and sharing records of women’s lived experience.
Read the full blog now 👉 bit.ly/4bU05Pb
#womenshistorymonth #thewomenwhomadeshakespeare
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet” 🌹
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2
#happyvalentinesday #valentinesday #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2
#happyvalentinesday #valentinesday #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
February 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet” 🌹
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2
#happyvalentinesday #valentinesday #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2
#happyvalentinesday #valentinesday #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
📣 We’re delighted to announce that Shakespeare’s First Folio: All The Plays – A Children’s Edition is shortlisted for Cultural Enterprises Awards Best Publication of the Year.
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
📣 We’re delighted to announce that Shakespeare’s First Folio: All The Plays – A Children’s Edition is shortlisted for Cultural Enterprises Awards Best Publication of the Year.
2025 Conservation Period: Completed ⚒️✅
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage opens its doors to visitors tomorrow, marking the end of our conservation period for this year.
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage opens its doors to visitors tomorrow, marking the end of our conservation period for this year.
January 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
2025 Conservation Period: Completed ⚒️✅
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage opens its doors to visitors tomorrow, marking the end of our conservation period for this year.
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage opens its doors to visitors tomorrow, marking the end of our conservation period for this year.
📣 See conservation in action at the home of Shakespeare’s daughter 🏡
As we undertake a significant conservation project at Hall’s Croft this spring, we’ll be inviting you into the historic building for a front row seat.
Find out more: bit.ly/4gmySoW
As we undertake a significant conservation project at Hall’s Croft this spring, we’ll be inviting you into the historic building for a front row seat.
Find out more: bit.ly/4gmySoW
January 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📣 See conservation in action at the home of Shakespeare’s daughter 🏡
As we undertake a significant conservation project at Hall’s Croft this spring, we’ll be inviting you into the historic building for a front row seat.
Find out more: bit.ly/4gmySoW
As we undertake a significant conservation project at Hall’s Croft this spring, we’ll be inviting you into the historic building for a front row seat.
Find out more: bit.ly/4gmySoW
🏘️ Residents Go Free - Book Now 🎟️
📣 Calling all CV37 Residents, you can now pre-book your free visit to the Shakespeare family homes from 1 February.
📣 Calling all CV37 Residents, you can now pre-book your free visit to the Shakespeare family homes from 1 February.
January 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🏘️ Residents Go Free - Book Now 🎟️
📣 Calling all CV37 Residents, you can now pre-book your free visit to the Shakespeare family homes from 1 February.
📣 Calling all CV37 Residents, you can now pre-book your free visit to the Shakespeare family homes from 1 February.
⏰ Residents Go Free - the wait is almost over⏰
🏘️ There’s just over a week to go until our new ‘Residents Go Free’ scheme goes live on 1 Feb, meaning all CV37 residents will get free admission to Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Shakespeare’s New Place throughout the year.
🏘️ There’s just over a week to go until our new ‘Residents Go Free’ scheme goes live on 1 Feb, meaning all CV37 residents will get free admission to Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Shakespeare’s New Place throughout the year.
January 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
⏰ Residents Go Free - the wait is almost over⏰
🏘️ There’s just over a week to go until our new ‘Residents Go Free’ scheme goes live on 1 Feb, meaning all CV37 residents will get free admission to Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Shakespeare’s New Place throughout the year.
🏘️ There’s just over a week to go until our new ‘Residents Go Free’ scheme goes live on 1 Feb, meaning all CV37 residents will get free admission to Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Shakespeare’s New Place throughout the year.
BBC CWR visited us this morning at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage to hear all about the conservation works that began today 🛠️🏡
🎧 Listen here: bbc.in/4g4wd3m
⏩ Skip to 10mins, 1hr 28mins, 1hr 46mins, 2hrs 29mins and 2hrs 52mins
#sbt #conservation #shakespeare
🎧 Listen here: bbc.in/4g4wd3m
⏩ Skip to 10mins, 1hr 28mins, 1hr 46mins, 2hrs 29mins and 2hrs 52mins
#sbt #conservation #shakespeare
January 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
BBC CWR visited us this morning at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage to hear all about the conservation works that began today 🛠️🏡
🎧 Listen here: bbc.in/4g4wd3m
⏩ Skip to 10mins, 1hr 28mins, 1hr 46mins, 2hrs 29mins and 2hrs 52mins
#sbt #conservation #shakespeare
🎧 Listen here: bbc.in/4g4wd3m
⏩ Skip to 10mins, 1hr 28mins, 1hr 46mins, 2hrs 29mins and 2hrs 52mins
#sbt #conservation #shakespeare
⚒️ Anne Hathaway’s Conservation 🛠️
🏡 From today until 31 January, the cottage will not be accessible due to planned conservation works that maintain and protect our historic properties.
We look forward to welcoming you back on 1 February.
🏡 From today until 31 January, the cottage will not be accessible due to planned conservation works that maintain and protect our historic properties.
We look forward to welcoming you back on 1 February.
January 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
⚒️ Anne Hathaway’s Conservation 🛠️
🏡 From today until 31 January, the cottage will not be accessible due to planned conservation works that maintain and protect our historic properties.
We look forward to welcoming you back on 1 February.
🏡 From today until 31 January, the cottage will not be accessible due to planned conservation works that maintain and protect our historic properties.
We look forward to welcoming you back on 1 February.
And that’s a wrap on Conservation at Shakespeare’s Birthplace 🎬 👏
Over the past two weeks our teams have been hard at work ensuring that Shakespeare’s Birthplace is well maintained and preserved for our visitors to enjoy.
🏡 Shakespeare’s Birthplace reopens tomorrow at 10am.
#sbt #conservation
Over the past two weeks our teams have been hard at work ensuring that Shakespeare’s Birthplace is well maintained and preserved for our visitors to enjoy.
🏡 Shakespeare’s Birthplace reopens tomorrow at 10am.
#sbt #conservation
January 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
And that’s a wrap on Conservation at Shakespeare’s Birthplace 🎬 👏
Over the past two weeks our teams have been hard at work ensuring that Shakespeare’s Birthplace is well maintained and preserved for our visitors to enjoy.
🏡 Shakespeare’s Birthplace reopens tomorrow at 10am.
#sbt #conservation
Over the past two weeks our teams have been hard at work ensuring that Shakespeare’s Birthplace is well maintained and preserved for our visitors to enjoy.
🏡 Shakespeare’s Birthplace reopens tomorrow at 10am.
#sbt #conservation
📣 2025 Conservation Period is Underway 📣
For our first post here on Bluesky, we're marking the start of a new conservation period by taking a look back at some of the items that we preserved in 2024.
Because of this important work, our properties are protected for future generations to enjoy.
For our first post here on Bluesky, we're marking the start of a new conservation period by taking a look back at some of the items that we preserved in 2024.
Because of this important work, our properties are protected for future generations to enjoy.
January 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📣 2025 Conservation Period is Underway 📣
For our first post here on Bluesky, we're marking the start of a new conservation period by taking a look back at some of the items that we preserved in 2024.
Because of this important work, our properties are protected for future generations to enjoy.
For our first post here on Bluesky, we're marking the start of a new conservation period by taking a look back at some of the items that we preserved in 2024.
Because of this important work, our properties are protected for future generations to enjoy.