We call upon Birmingham University to urgently reconsider its decision to close the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and move it to the Edgbaston campus. Stratfordians, actors and creatives, students and academics, businesses, cultural organisations and the Stratford Herald are united in the belief that the university management’s proposal would be disastrous. It threatens not just the economy and cultural ecosystem of Stratford, but the reputation of the university itself, and the status of Shakespeare studies and the wider humanities nationally and internationally.

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