Dr Robert Bearman BA, (Oxford) PhD (King's London) Shakespeare InstituteRetired Head of Archives and Local Studies, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Contact details Telephone+44 (0)1926 641 560Emailbearman452@btinternet.com AddressThe Shakespeare Institute Mason Croft Church Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HP UK Biography Educated: Chichester High School Hertford College, Oxford BA (History) Kings College, London. PhD Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham Research I am currently editing for publication by the Dugdale Society, 'Minutes and Accounts of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation, 1599-1609'. Other activities General Editor of the Publications of the Dugdale Society, from 2001 Editor of Warwickshire History, from 1970 Publications The Gregorys of Stivichall in the Sixteenth Century, 1972 Stratford-upon-Avon as it Was, 1979 Stratford-upon-Avon: a history of its streets and buildings, 1988, revised 2007 Captain James Saunders of Stratford-upon-Avon: a local antiquary, 1990 Charters of the Redvers Family and the earldom of Devon, 1994 Shakespeare in the Stratford Records, 1994 Contributions Anglo-Norman Studies, Equilibrium, Midland History, Notes and Queries, Oral History, Persuasions, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society, and Warwickshire History, including; 'Baldwin de Redvers: some aspects of a baronial career in the reign of King Stephen', Anglo-Norman Studies, 1996 'Stratford's fires of 1594 and 1595 revisited', Midland History, 2000 '"Was William Shakespeare William Shakeshafte?" revisited', Shakespeare Quarterly, 2002 'John Shakespeare's spiritual testament; a re-appraisal', Shakespeare Survey, 2003 ‘John Shakespeare: a papist or just penniless?’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 2005 ‘The early Reformation Experience in a Warwickshire market town: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1530-1580’, Midland History, 2007 Contributor to and general editor of: The History of an English Borough: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996, 1997 Compton Verney: a history of the House and its Owners, 2000 Stoneleigh Abbey: The House, Its Owners, Its Lands, 2004