Shakespeare and the Georgians
The 1741 statue of Shakespeare in Poet’s Corner 2014, it seems, is going to be the year of the Georgians, with several different exhibitions looking at different aspects of life in the period covering...
View ArticleCome, here is the map: Mercator at the British Library
The map of the British Isles from Mercator’s Map of Europe Now available on the British Library’s Online Gallery of Virtual Books is the Mercator Map of Europe. You might assume from the name that it’s...
View ArticleRemembering Garrick’s Jubilee in Stratford-upon-Avon
The statue of Shakespeare donated by David Garrick Imagine the scene in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 9 September 1769, the morning after the night before, indeed after the three days of David...
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