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External video: Rally for the Rose (Ben Prusiner), 21 November 2020
Fundraising video (1:41:20) with various contributors from Dame Judi Dench to Sir Simon Hughes and others involved in the 1989 protests that saved the…
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15th Anniversary Celebration (1989 Discovery),
Rose Revealed launch and HLF info, 8 March 2005
Parameta architectural plan FIX
RTT shares plans to complete the excavation with support of HLF funding. Fundraising announcement and list of trustees. Description of new red rope lights to indicate foundations (replacements for luminary pads of 1999). Invitation from Sir David…
"Year of the Rose and the Globe", 16 October 1989
In this letter Martin Clout details the cultural significance of the Rose and the Globe, supporting their case for scheduling as national monuments. He cites the surviving historical documentation of the day to day running of the Rose, and its…
"The threat to finding London's history", 30 December 1989
Documents English Heritage's plans for the Rose, conflict between EH and the Museum of London regarding the excavation, and other complications surrounding the excavation and presentation of the site
"The Sonic Trail: A Playgoer's Journey": 1587 Sonic Walk (guided walk in Bankside and Queenhithe) using Echoes geolocated immersive audio guide), 2025
Self-guided, geo-located sonic walk from Bankside, over Southwark Bridge, by Queenhithe, Millennium Bridge and through Rose Alley. 75 minutes. User is guided as if they were attending a performance of Dr Faustus in 1587 at the Rose. Site-specific,…
"The Rose Theatre: Archaeological remains tour" site visit led by Harvey Sheldon, 12 March 2015
Talk by Harvey Sheldon, archaeologist and Chair of the Rose Theatre Trust, regarding the discovery, excavation and display of the Rose Theatre with special access to the site, 10:30 to 12:00. In association with the Museum of London.
"The Rose Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse" by The Anne Boleyn Files and Tudor Society. (Claire Ridgway). 18 February 2020
Video lecture about the history of the Rose Playhouse. (4:11)
"The Rose goes to Wanamaker", 25 September 1989
Sam Wanamaker and Imry Merchant reach an agreement for the Rose remains to be displayed as part of the Globe centre.
"Save the Rose: As seen from the eyes of one Southwark resident". Richard Miller film screening, 10 February 2014
Screening of Save the Rose film with an introductory talk by Richard Miller
"Rose tea room unearthed", 2 November 1989
Chomley's vittling house discovered in south-west corner of Rose site.
"Request for Rose plan", 26 September 1989
The Globe Theatre Trust and Rose Theatre Trust compete for control of the site's future and development.
"London Debates Digging at Site of Globe Theater",
30 October 1989
Mentions the discovery (paragraph 2) and fight for the Rose to be preserved (paragraph 11)
"Globe Theatre unearthed", 13 October 1989
Continuation of "Archaeologists uncover Globe Theatre remains" ; details the pause on constructing the Globe replica theatre and the push to have the discovery classed as a "site of archaeological importance"
"Globe dig may have to halt as timber is drying out",
3 November 1989
The earlier discovery and close proximity of the Rose Theatre is referenced in the first two paragraphs.
"Façadism and finer feelings", 17 October 1989
Briefly describes the controversy surrounding the fate of the Rose (first three paragraphs), contrasting it to possible conflict around the preservation of the Globe
"Army gives ground for defense of Stonehenge",
2 November 1989
Rose Theatre "satisfactory outcome" from earlier in the year is used as a reference in the last column of the article.
"Archaeologists uncover Globe Theatre remains",
13 October 1989
The Globe is discovered. Excavation reveals the remains of the outer walls of the first Globe, brick remnants of the second, as well as coins, and hazelnut shells.
'Books do Furnish a Room': Book Bonanza, 1 March 2014
Book donation and selling fundraising event as part of World Book Day.
Rose Facebook post, 9 December 2021
Link to application for Young Pleasance Edinburgh Residential 2022
