KAS online talk with James Dickinson — Thu 30 Apr, 7pm (Zoom). Free. Explore Canterbury from Roman times to the late Middle Ages, focusing on pilgrimage after Thomas Becket’s 1170 murder, Chaucer’s pilgrims and how visitors marked Becket’s shrine. Joining info sent later. #Canterbury #Heritage
North Kent Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) are a very active group with a large membership of children and young people of all ages, united by a genuine passion for archaeology and history but struggling to find opportunities.
If you can support North Kent YAC email: bexleyyac@btinternet.com
Apr 18, 1593: Venus and Adonis is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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A high res scan of Shakespeare's property plan is now available to view on @thelondonarchives.bsky.social collections catalogue. Just type in the document reference CLC/522/MS14570/001
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William Shakespeare has been laying low for over 400 years, but at long last, @lucycmunro.bsky.social has sniffed him out
Tonight at 6.30pm (1.30pm EST)
Jesse Berger in conversation, talking about Red Bull Theater, The Rose, and his current production of Titus Andronicus, nominated for a Lortel award for Outstanding Revival, and playing in New York until 3 May.
Can't make it? Buy a ticket and ask for a catch-up link.
Today’s new post is a quick read on Tudor “stand up” routines, celebrity clowning, and husband and wife duos:
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A man in a bell diving suit stand next to the diving equipment.
Here's something you don't expect to see, a diver at Winchester Cathedral!
William Walker (1869-1918) was a diver, and this portrait photograph shows him in his diving suit and with his diving equipment, likely taken at the Cathedral, where he worked between 1906 and 1911.
Infographic for the event, with a headshot of Professor David McInnis, wearing glasses and smiling at the camera. It reads: RESEARCHING THE ROSE Monday evening online talks. Professor David McInnis. Lost Plays & The Rose. 7.30 pm GMT online, Monday 23 March. In conjunction with Literature Works and the Page of Plymouth project.
Monday 23 March
7.30pm (GMT) online
LOST PLAYS & THE ROSE
Professor David McInnis
The vast majority of plays once performed at The Rose are now lost, but what can they still reveal about the business of Elizabethan play-making?
Tickets: ÂŁ8 / ÂŁ5 students & Friends
Book: www.trybooking.com/uk/GEID
Sounds like an excellent plan!
Would next year not be the 400th anniversary of the Curtain closing and the Corral de Comedias in Almagro opening??
So is !!!
Looks like you are having fun - @benblyth.bsky.social I feel we need a similar field trip.
This place lives in my head rent free, so a pleasure & privilege to visit Almagro’s 1628 corral de comedias. One of world’s oldest surviving theatres, an uncanny analogue to the Curtain playhouse #CurtainBook. Grateful to the city & Councillor Genaro Galà n Garcia for their generous hospitality.
On 3 March, join our free lunchtime lecture to hear about the identification of wall paintings of two of the Nine Worthies at Eastgate House and learn about their use in a variety of media in the interiors of 16th and 17th century houses.
www.sal.org.uk/event/nine-w...
The #Faversham Fleur de Lis Museum re-opens tomorrow from 11am - 3pm and a fabulous exhibition is ready to kick off the year.
The The Kent Archaeological Society community excavation at Front Brents, Faversham exhibition will run until the 18th April.
A timber framed house with a 19th-century shop window decorated for Christmas with two life sized cardboard cut out William Shakespeares wearing Christmas hats next to a fake fire place. Angels and stars are hanging in the door window.
Christmas window decorations with a pile of gift boxes on the left in front of two cardboard images of Shakespeare next to a white pole decorated with a green garland with small white and pink birds. In the centre is a fire place with Santa’s legs dangling above a pile of logs. On top of the fire place are books, a candle, bookends, a glass and a mince pie. To the right is a small figure of St Nicholas.
A letter on top of the fireplace with a bookend on the left and the candle holder behind. The letter reads “Dear Father Christmas, I have been been good boy unlike my friend Kit Marlowe (who can be very bad) for Christmas I would like you to write a play for me please. I have the title Twelfth Night but need help with the rest. If you could make a funny play the Queen would like I would be grateful. William Shakespeare”.
As promised @callanjd.bsky.social - photos of our advent window. We started off with a Twelfth Night theme but it kind of went off piste slightly.
Thanks Vic, glad you enjoyed it.
It’s for the Wandsworth Historical Society. wandsworthhistory.org.uk
The Merton Head, carved stone head with coronet with traces of gilt.
This stone head with coronet was found on the site of Merton Priory, Surrey, in 1797. The diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton FSA presented the head on behalf of the Priory’s landowner to the Society in 1802.
Infographic, together with a photo of the speaker, that reads: Researching The Rose Monday evening online talks CALISTA LUCY Joan Alleyn – No Mouse 6.30pm online Mon 24 Nov 2025
Mon 24 Nov @ 6.30pm online
JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE
Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
The next in a series of online talks hosted by the KAS, with Experimental Archaeologist Alexander Read. Alex will talk us through how he made an early Saxon sword based on one from Sarre.
Join Zoom Meeting: us06web.zoom.us/j/82181595224
#Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology
Detail from of wood cut from a ballad “ Man in the Moon Drinks Claret”. A man standing on a half moon with a jug in one hand and a wine glass in the other.
Thanks @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for “Pub Crawling Through Playhouses” - an excellent romp through playhouses and their drinking culture and cheers to @roseplayhouse.bsky.social for hosting! 🍻
Blame the change from BST to GMT - I was worried I wouldn’t be home from work in time, I would only have myself to blame for that.
The weather may be dreary today, but tomorrow looks better, so why not drop by ours at 1pm for a free talk on a long-lost painting of an 18th-century London amputation scene. www.sal.org.uk/event/amputa...
Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association  – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.
TONIGHT at 6.30pm online
This should be a fascinating talk, so please do join us if you can!
This is REALLY good to see. Too many colleagues were utterly misrepresented in this awful film, & in narrative surrounding it
They deserve to have their names cleared.
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
