Here is a collection of links to interesting and informative online resources that you may find useful. It is by no means exhaustive and we invite members to suggest further links to sites that might help others in their researches.

There is also a list of associated organisations here.

Early career researchers may also like to consult the link lists in the New Researchers Network page.

1. Research Organisations

   Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)

   International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)

   Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR)

   Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

   Performance Studies International (PSi)

   The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD)

   International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS)

   Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC)

   The Theatres Trust

   British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)

   The British Shakespeare Association (BSA)

   British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)

   Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

   Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS)

   Association for British Theatre Technicians

   Society of British Theatre Designers

   Society of Theatre Consultants

2. Libraries and Theatre Collections

   The British Library

   National Archives

   National Portrait Gallery ‘Search the Collections’

   V&A ‘Search the Collections’

   V&A Theatre Collections

   COPAC

   NUI Galway Theatre Collections

   The National Theatre Archive

   Archives Hub

   British Museum ‘Search the Collections’

   University of Bristol Theatre Collections

   The Live Art Development Agency

   University of Kent Theatre Collections

   National Fairground Archive

   The Shakespeare Institute Library

   Records of Early English Drama (REED)

   The Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon

   The Huntington Library

   University of Texas at Austin – Harry Ransom Center

   New York Public Library

   Princeton University Library

   The Houghton Library, Harvard University

3. Theatres and Theatre Companies

   The National Theatre

   The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)

   The Abbey Theatre

   The Young Vic Theatre

   The Lyric Theatre

   The Old Vic Theatre

   The Donmar Warehouse

   Druid Theatre Company

   The Barbican Centre

   The Project Arts Centre, Dublin

   Smock Alley Theatre

4. Research Institutions and Hubs

   London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London

   London Theatre Seminar

   QUORUM (Queen Mary, University of London)

   TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities)

   CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge)

   The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

   The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

   The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, NUI Galway

   Early English Drama and Performance

5. Other online resources

   The Rose Theatre – archaeology and digital reconstruction

   Drama Online

   Digital Theatre

   Reviewing Shakespeare

   The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project

   The Interactive Map of Early Modern London

   Interactive 3D Reconstruction of the Rose Theatre

   The Victorian Plays Project

   The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

   Arthur Lloyd’s theatrical ancestry pages

    

6. Blogs by Theatre Researchers and Other Academics

   The Thesis Whisperer

   The Activist Classroom

   The Bardathon

   Blogging Shakespeare

   Scenes from the Bigger Picture

   asidenotes

   Clamorous Voice

   Shakespeare in Ireland

   The Feminist Spectator

   Not In Our Stars

   Digital Shakespeares

   Not You Will