Much ado about the Bard at ‘Stratford on Craven’

A SMALL MUSEUM in a Yorkshire town hall is showing off one of the most important books in the history of the English language.

By Andrew Robinson

Published 19th Mar 2014, 00:07 BST

Craven Museum in Skipton has an extremely rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio, a collection of his plays printed in 1623.

The museum and gallery is celebrating the science of 1623 with crafts events on Saturday as part of Shakespeare Week and National Science and Engineering Week.

The First Folio travels to York on March 26 to be on display in the Yorkshire Museum during the Yorkshire Festival.

It will return to Craven Museum on July 14. The museum’s First Folio is only one in five in the world on permanent display.

Admission to the Skipton museum is free.

The book was left to the museum in the 1930s by the daughter of 19th century industrialist John Wilkinson, who established Primrose Mill in Embsay, near Skipton.