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.

🎉 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.

📣 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.

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'.

'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

📣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.

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! 👏

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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

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

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

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.

📣 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

“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

📣 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.

📣 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

🏘️ 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.

⏰ 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.

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

⚒️ 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.

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

📣 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.