Folger Institute

A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection

A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.

Findings from a 1945 survey asking patrons of a library about their experiences reading, watching, and performing Shakespeare.

Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”

Fellow Jamie Gemmell explores how race was performed in the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show

Herbarius: A New Herbal for the Anthropocene, by 2024-25 artist research fellow Suzette Marie Martin, is a “deconstructed manuscript” series of paintings that traces the intercontinental dispersal of non-native plant species through formerly valued medicinal herbs, now despised as weeds.

Fellow Layla Zeitouni explains how the Term “Major” Allowed the Gutenberg Bible to Supersede the Donatus

A participant in the undergraduate seminar, Whose Sovereignty?, explores depictions of Othello in the Folger collection

A participant in the undergraduate seminar, Whose Sovereignty?, experiences the materiality of the 1583 edition of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments

Fellow Anandi Rao takes a close look at a copy of an Urdu translation of The Comedy of Errors.

Fellow Sara Pennell hunts down the former owner of one the Folger’s many recipe books.

Fellow Alex Baines looks at the drawings of C. Walter Hodges and how they continue to impact how we imagine the Globe Theatre