A quick post to share with you a wonderful new ‘app’ that will be launched this month at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, to help guide visitors through Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare's Birthplace
The app will make use of various digital images from the Trust’s collections and offer a new way of exploring its properties and treasures.
What’s really exciting is that parts of the collection not normally available to the general public, like the baptism and burial records of William Shakespeare, will now be digitised and accessible.
The baptismal and burial records of Shakespeare held in the Trust’s archives, feature in the app.
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
These important details are recorded in the parish register, a hand written book that lists the baptisms, marriages and burials that took place at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon between 1558-1776.
Shakespeare was baptised on the 26th of April 1564 and buried on the 25th of April 1616. Although his date of birth is not recorded in the register, it is almost certain that he would have been born in late April, as sixteenth century baptisms were generally performed within three days of birth.
Stratford-upon-Avon is an incredible place to visit and one that I look forward to returning to in the near future.
For more information on this project and the app, please visit Finding Shakespeare.
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