Happy Birthday, Shakespeare! Visit Dulwich Archive to celebrate with the First Folio, some stirring renditions of the Henry V St Crispin's Day speech, and even Shakespeare himself (in party attire, naturally). #ShakespearesBirthday

23 Apr 1616: d. William Shakespeare playwright & poet #otd (Folger)

#onthisday we celebrate National #Shakespeare Day! Shakespeare's years in the City of London unfolded right on our doorstep, and we’re delighted to hold a copy of the First Folio, printed less than a mile from where the library stands today, as well as many other wonderful texts.

To honour #Shakespeare 's birthday we have put on display Wodehouse Library both volumes of our partial First Folio, 1623. The comedies are open at Love's Labours Lost & the histories at Henry V.

We have today added a teapot to our collection of Dulwich College crested china. It will live on #PGWodehouse 's desk along with the pig, the tank and the jug.

After the ill fated Endurance Expedition 1914-16, #Shackleton gifted the James Caird to his friend, John Quiller Rowett, Dulwich College 1889-91, in exchange for £70,000 sponsorship for the Quest expedition. When Shackleton died Rowett gifted the boat to their old school.

#OTD 1924 The James Caird arrived Dulwich College. She was 1st housed outside the Science Building, when that was destroyed in #WW2 she was moved to a new 'nook' outside the swimming pool. After a spell Royal Museums Greenwich she lived in the North Cloister & is now in The Laboratory.

A rerun of Indian Hill Railways is currently on BBC iPlayer and features the story of the late John Whitmarsh-Knight OA (52-61). He was the fifth generation in his family born in India and returned to teach at Bishop Cotton in Shimla at the age of 68
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17th century historians: “I cited all my sources and kept a bibliography!”

the bibliography:

All that glisters... ✨

A gold ring, found during excavations of the Rose Theatre on Bankside.

The inscription reads 'PENCES POVR MOYE DV' (the letters ‘DV’ stand for the Latin words ‘Deo Volente’) which translates as ‘Think of me, God willing’.

#WorldTheatreDay

Hello! I'm talking about THE BOOK-MAKERS at Southwark Cathedral on Thursday, May 16, at 6:30pm.

It's £5 entrance. According to the Bank of England Inflation Calculator, this is the equivalent of £0.01 in 1492 (where the book begins).

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The collection shows his varied interests in other cultures and societies.

The inaugural annual TheRosePlayhouse Lecture given last night by Sir Gregory Doran on Titus Andronicus Revisted was brilliant. Hosted London South Bank University - LSBU it celebrated the premier of the play on 23 January 1593[4] when the box office was £4 8s according to Henslowe's Diary MS VII Dulwich Archive

On this day in 1394, the first 70 scholars arrived at William of Wykeham's new school, Winchester College.

The names of these 70 boys and every scholar since have been recorded in a manuscript register, as demanded by the College's statutes. (1/4)

It was an honour to attend the reburial of Richard III, founder of the College of Arms, in Leicester Cathedral in 2015.

Their son, also Belgrave Ninnis, born 22 June 1887 was Dulwich College 1900-06. When #Shackleton had no room for him on the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition, he joined Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition & died 14 January 1913 following a fall into a crevasse.

Our Polar Postcard this month showcases the work of Simone Eringfeld, a PhD student studying Antarctic Soundscapes. Simone has recently returned from fieldwork in Antarctica!

It's #WorldTheatreDay2024 !! The First Folio preserved 18 Shakespeare plays that may have been lost. It's amazing to think how many theatre productions were, and will be, produced because of those who created the First Folio. Read their remarkabke story in SHAKESPEARE'S BOOK!! 👇

A 'remarkable' Roman villa has been unearthed on a housing development in Oxfordshire: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Sir Gregory Doran, Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will tonight deliver the inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture. The @roseplayhouse and @lsbu have partnered for this event, to be introduced by Sir @simonhughes trybooking.com/uk/events/land…