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Exploring Wisson House, Shakespeare’s Neighbor
In Stratford Upon Avon, where William Shakespeare was born, there is a house that was built in 1530, while King Henry VIII was ruling England. This house was there when Shakespeare was living in the town, and the owners have direct connections to Shakespeare himself....
How Shakespeare’s England Laid the Groundwork for the Witch Panics
In the decades that followed Shakespeare's death in 1616, England saw the arrival of events known as witch panics of Civil War–era Britain. It’s easy to think that these witch panics and the heightened fear about witches was something that’s post-Shakespeare, but the...
The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg
Long before fashion magazines, personal style blogs, or carefully curated social media feeds, a 16th century German accountant named Matthäus Schwarz was documenting his wardrobe in extraordinary detail. Between 1520 and 1560, Schwarz commissioned artists...



