📢We are closed for Easter from Friday 18 April – Wednesday 23 April. (Happy Birthday Shakespeare!)

Our former students are now filling our shelves with their books! Beth Sharrock on Shakespeare broadcasts, Coen Heijes on Shakespeare pedagogy and Thomas Rist on the Catholicism of early modern literature.

📢Just a reminder we are closed on Bank Holiday Monday (5 May)☀️

#OTD in 1855 novelist Marie Corelli celebrated her birthday. Have you seen our online exhibition? flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkLFG Shakespeare Institute

Come and see our new exhibition marking 30 years since the Library was built. With pictures of the building work and documents explaining how to move an entire collection with a couple of trolleys and a minibus.

Here’s another jigsaw, it’s a poster from our Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre collection. jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2… #EYAFunAndGames

📢 New online exhibition of photographs of the Shakespeare Institute Library from 1994-95 and the present day flic.kr/s/aHBqjCdxdq Shakespeare Institute

📢Just a reminder we are closed on Bank Holiday Monday (26 May)

New books on bodies, dancing, shrews and African Shakespeare.

Wishing Sir Stanley Wells a very Happy 95th Birthday from everyone at the library. This photo was used in an article about the library opening in 1996 from our newscuttings archive

#OTD 1858 Victorian art critic Marion Spielmann was born. He compiled a bibliography of plays where Shakespeare was a character - ‘Shakespeare Treads the Boards’. Check out our recently catalogued collection tinyurl.com/3mzy8h8s

#EYATravel A charred brick from the ruins of the Memorial Theatre was the must have souvenir from a trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1926. The article is from our newscutting collection. #ExploreYourArchive

📢The library is open this Saturday 10am -5pm

New books for June including Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare by Shakespeare Institute alumna Joan Fitzpatrick.

On the #SummerSolstice here’s a magical image from the production of #AMidsummerNightsDream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2000 taken from our Open Air Theatre archive.

‘We suspect Dr Doolittle may have been in the house as animals featured heavily this afternoon’ Nature was competing for a starring role in this production of ‘All My Sons’ in 2014! Here’s a Show Report from our Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre archive #EYANature #ExploreYourArchive

#OTD in 1932 the Daily Express reports of the first four open air public performances of ‘Twelfth Night’ at the Inner Circle Gardens Regent’s Park ‘There will be no scenery whatever, except that provided by nature’ The beginnings of the Open Air Theatre. #EYANature

Fascinated to find this poem by Marie Corelli in the YMCA Weekly from 12 March 1915 showing support for Belgium. From a collection on microfilm Uni of Birmingham Cadbury Research Library.

Today we are adding to the collection some novels with Shakespeare influences, connections and inspirations.

📢Just a reminder we are closed on Bank Holiday Monday (25 August)