Shakespeare Birthplace Trust website, 27 November 2015 The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has today announced that significant new findings have been unearthed during an archaeological dig, led by Staffordshire University’s Centre of Archaeology, at its ambitious New Place project. New Place was Shakespeare’s family home at the height of his career for almost two decades. The dig has enhanced and extended […]
By James Rodger for the Coventry Telegraph, 11 May 2015 School children and grown-up gamers are invited to get creative and imagine what William Shakespeare’s final home may have looked like in a brand new competition using popular online block building game, Minecraft. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the non-profit organisation that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon, […]
A £5.25m project to excavate Shakespeare’s living quarters for the first time has started. Work began on Wednesday to remove the top soil at the back of Shakespeare’s last home in New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon – an area that has never previously been examined.
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