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How Would Shakespeare Have Been Dressed?
Imagine stepping onto a London street sometime around the year 1600. Carts rattle over the road, apprentices call from shop doors, the air is filled with smoke, food, animals, and the noise of the city—and somewhere in the crowd, William Shakespeare is walking toward...
Remembering the Gunpowder Plot with a Coin from 1605
November 5th, 1605. Beneath the Houses of Parliament, Guy Fawkes stood ready to ignite thirty-six barrels of gunpowder and obliterate King James I, his entire government, and England's Protestant future. When the Plot failed, relief rippled across England...
The Curious History of Pumpkins in Shakespeare’s England
Spooky season is upon us here again this October, with Halloween being celebrated at the end of the week. If your neighborhood is anything like mine, this means that there will be lines and lines of pumpkins everywhere! From jackolanterns to...



