Articles

From 2020 to 2023 the Everything to Everybody project hosted six ‘Heritage Ambassadors’, students from the University of Birmingham who researched the Shakespeare Collection. They each wrote a series of informative articles.

Links to the articles are included throughout the Shakespeare Collection pages, or you can follow the links below to read all articles.

• Francesca Rhodes
  • JH Chamberlain - Shakespeare, Architecture, and...Doodles
  • Made in Birmingham
  • Sold, Stored, or Saved
• Joan Turner
  • Discovering the First Folio
  • First Folio and the Napoleon of Booksellers
• Karin Thomson
  • The Legacy of a Friendship: George Dawson in the words of Samuel Timmins
  • The Mysterious Mr John Ward
  • Shakespeare without Class
  • Playbills
  • Prompt Books of the Theatre Royal Birmingham
• Samuel Taylor
  • Shakespeare Memorial Library Subscribers’ Committee - a Source of Inspiration?
  • The Less Well-Known Members of the Shakespeare Memorial Library’s Subscribers’ Committee

• Sian Scholes
  • Scandal, Celebrity and Insanity

• Steve Hewett
  • A Small Corner
  • Exploring the Archives of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Library
  • ‘‘For Heaven’s Sake, no Clerk’: John Davies Mullins: from Tailor to Birmingham’s first Chief Librarian
  • Researching the Birmingham Shakespeare Library
  • Your beautiful little Shakespeare Library: Halliwell-Phillipps and the Shakespeare Memorial Library

Page last updated: 19 October 2023