Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Senate House Library May 2016

About the event


The event will focus on editing Wikipedia pages about places that appear in the works of William Shakespeare.


 * How do I prepare?
 * Sign up here
 * Create a Wikipedia account - Special:UserLogin/signup
 * Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided), if you don't have a laptop please contact us about borrowing one.
 * Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information


 * Refreshments will be provided

Agenda

 * 10:30 - coffee, set up, and registration
 * 11:00 - how to edit Wikipedia
 * 14:00 - how to locate places on British History Online and Victoria County History
 * 16:00 - meeting adjourns

Disability
This event is wheelchair accessible. If you need a disabled parking space please contact us in advance. Please tell us in advance if you need to have a hearing loop available.

Trainers

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Target List
Articles to edit:
 * William Shakespeare in London
 * Theatres in Shakespeare's London
 * Stratford-upon-Avon
 * Church of the Holy Trinity, Straford-upon-Avon
 * Warwickshire
 * Windsor in The Merry Wives of Windsor
 * London of Henry VI, Richard III, King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, or Henry VIII
 * Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well
 * Forest of Arden in As You Like It
 * Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors
 * Hamlet's Denmark
 * King Lear's Britain
 * Navarre in Love's Labour's Lost
 * Vienna in Measure for Measure
 * Verona and Mantua in Romeo and Juliet
 * The Tempest's island
 * Illyria in The Twelfth Night
 * Athens in Timon of Athens (Was a 'walled' Athens standing in for London?)


 * List of Shakespearean settings - just started, play details to be added
 * Curtain Theatre - photographs of recent excavations could be added from Wikimedia Commons

Sources to pull from

 * Editions of all of Shakespeare's plays on hand for reference at the event
 * British History Online
 * Crawforth, Dustahgeer and Young, Shakespeare in London (Arden 2014)
 * Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (CUP 1996)
 * Hopkins, City/Stage/Globe: performance and space in Shakespeare's London (Routledge 2008)
 * The first public playhouse: the theatre in Shoreditch, 1576-1598 (McGill-Queen's University Press 1979)
 * Howard, Theatre of a city: the places of London comedy, 1598-1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press 2007)
 * Bowsher, Shakespeare's London theatreland: archaeology, history and drama (Museum of London Archaeology 2012)
 * Maley and Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (Manchester University Press 2004)
 * Records of Early English Drama
 * Early Modern London Theatres
 * Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
 * The Early Modern Drama Database
 * The Map of Early Modern London

Maps created for the event
Many thanks to Andras Bereznay for the maps
 * Shakespeare in Britain
 * Shakespeare in Britain and Europe
 * Shakespeare abroad

Image adding exercise
Go here to try to add an image to an article: Image adding exercise

Researching Shakespeare and Place with British History Online

 * John Stow’s Survey of London: Although John Stow famously does not mention any theatres or playwrights in his Survey of London, the Survey is a contemporary account of London, which makes it an invaluable resource for understanding the city where Shakespeare lived. The first edition of the Survey was published in 1598, with a second and much-modified edition published in 1603. The version of the text that is on BHO is a 1908 edition of this 1603 text, edited by C L Kingsford.
 * Survey of London: Named after Stow’s text, this project began in the late nineteenth century and continues today. It provides detailed architectural and topographical studies of the capital's built environment. Volume 22 covers the parish of Southwark.
 * Victoria County History: This project also began in the nineteenth century and continues today. It is an encyclopaedic record of England's places and people from earliest times to the present day. Particular series that contain useful information about Shakespeare are the History of Middlesex and the History of Warwickshire.
 * Agas Map of London: The woodcut map of London, usually called the Agas map, represents London in the 1560s—slightly earlier than Shakespeare was in London, but it is a wonderful resource to get a sense of what the city was like in the 16th century.
 * Old and New London: This nineteenth-century account of the history of London is chock-full of useful—and sometimes whimsical—descriptions of famous Shakespearean sites. Volume 6 covers Southwark and the Globe.
 * The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Inventory volumes: The RCHME was established in 1908, with a remit to produce an inventory of English monuments and identify those which were worthy of preservation. It is a good resource for both monuments mentioned by Shakespeare and monuments to Shakespeare.
 * A Dictionary of London: This early twentieth-century text by Henry A Harben lists streets and buildings in the City of London and often signposts places that have been mentioned in Shakespeare plays.
 * Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known as the Remambrancia 1579-1664: This index covers correspondence between the central government and City of London officials. Includes descriptions of letters regarding plays, players and theatres.
 * Camden Record Society Old Series: The volumes of this series that we have on BHO cover medieval and early modern London.
 * Feet of Fines, London and Middlesex: Feet of fines are court copies of agreements following disputes over property. The disputes were mostly fictitious and were simply a way of having the transfer of ownership of land recorded officially by the king's court. The records in this series relate to London and Middlesex for the period 1189-1570.
 * Historical Gazetteer of London Before the Great Fire Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary Le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane: Detailed property histories for five parishes in the central Cheapside area of London, from the 12th to the late 17th century. It includes accounts of the parish churches, and information about the people and buildings associated with the properties.
 * Topographical Dictionaries: A series of topographical dictionaries for England, Scotland and Wales, compiled by the publisher Samuel Lewis (1782/3-1865).