Welcome to Shakespeare's Globe Archive Catalogue

The living record of your memory (Sonnet 55)

PLEASE NOTE:The Library & Archive will be closed to researchers from 11 August 2025. Our collections will become available again later in the year in our new Research and Collections Centre. Contact us for further information.

Our online catalogue contains descriptions of the archives in our collections.

A small number of catalogue records also contain access to digital copies of records. Read more about our Collections

We are open to everyone by appointment. See our opening times and book an appointment

Researchers should note that this archive catalogue facilitates access not just to the records of the Shakespeare Globe Trust, but to the staging of works from the Early Modern corpus. These can describe (for example) race, gender, class, sexual orientation or disability, in ways which reflect the period in which they were created, and thus be inappropriate or offensive. We encourage researchers to alert staff with specific concerns, to help us care for future users as well as archives.