Time Team Special: Searching for Shakespeare's House | Classic Special (Full Episode) 2012 Stratford

FULL EPISODE | CLASSIC TIME TEAM SPECIAL
Tony and Phil join researchers from Birmingham University excavating the site of William Shakespeare's home, New Place. Containing some 20 rooms, it was at that time the town's largest private house. In 1702, however, a new house nearer to the street was constructed on the site, and the exact placement of New Place was lost. New documents provide some clues for the excavation. Meanwhile, Tony traces Shakespeare's life, from his parents' family home to The Rose Theatre, Mary Arden's Farm, and the Globe Theatre.
Original UK broadcast date: 11th March 2012
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[@TimeTeamOfficial]

Discover more about the archaeology of Shakespeare in our latest episode of Time Team News: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jn-Vq3umm8irhbc

[@Bcc0402]

Please do more than one episode every few weeks

[@larryFritts-cu9xh]

Was this a recent episode? Or a later one reposted?

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

"Original UK broadcast date: 11th March 2012". Up in the description 🙂

[@larryFritts-cu9xh]

@@kraneiathedancingdryad6333 thank you!

[@thatcanadianwhitetrashguy]

Do You have any Caves that need Digging ? Ya never Know , You might find a Druid School . I still believe an 9 meter Tell Phil Dug that a Guest on the Show said They had found a Ring of Large Flint Nodes in the Middle like a Henge was Actually a Stone Age Carpentry Shop and the Large Flints were for Shaving Wood Smooth.

[@Becca2334]

Yes!! Phil and Tony!!!😊

[@greggreggy5954]

the teams back

[@martinputt6421]

@@greggreggy5954 It's an episode from 2012

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

​@@martinputt6421unfortunate they ever even started with the new bunch. Good to see they've not cancelled the original lovelies.

[@Georgina-tf4cc]

We know it's not "New", but if you didn't see the program when it was first broadcast, it's new to you, and even you have seen it before, it's well worth watching again!

[@suziedobbs863]

It's seriously is love time team they are amazing on showing me things I won't see in person .

[@rebeccaanderson5191]

Time Team is timeless!!

[@poesie6279]

Take a look at videos or blogs about Edward de Vere.

[@paulinewantland2588]

Love Phil and Tony, miss you guys.

[@philjohnson1744]

The raw anticipation in Harding's eyes when he said, "shall I get a shovel?" Made me giggle.

[@TikiHi77]

I don't know why he doesn't have a "trusty ole shovel" he takes everywhere. ❤

[@Woodie-xq1ew]

@@TikiHi77it was in the back of his car that’s where he went to get it 😂

[@earlatkins9559]

This Episode is from 2012 . We here in Ontario have had the Time Team regular episodes on TVO over the last 15 years or so. But as far as I know, they never showed any of the Special Episodes. There are 62 of those. I only discovered them about 4 years ago - on KZbin. These should be on the Classics Channel.

[@turnerg]

Yep, but that doesnt drum up a buzz like posting a previous special with the commercial breaks that feature modern day tony and updated graphics. It is the one thing that irks me with the new time team.

[@cherylmaden5989]

Dude it makes me feel like I'm back in the 90s in my 20s good times man. Good times

[@kcairns1]

Phil’s laugh is the best

[@ChristaFree]

Nice! Phil's laugh just can't be beat. Great to see him!

[@eloquentsarcasm]

Tony and Phil, together again! Absolute legends both of them, love seeing them down in the trenches after so long.

[@XlrationMedia]

This is from 2012

[@GeraBrown]

​@@XlrationMedia Which seems old to people whose lives haven't been rosy the last decade. Just saying.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Use to be a show about archaeology, but turned into a show of characters clowning around " where's me beer Tony, ha ha ha" It's a comedy show with a bit of archaeology thrown in, you can't argue otherwise because your comment was about the presenters and not about the archeology. Which In itself is often guess work made to fit in with what they are looking for and put into some vauge context

[@GeraBrown]

​​​@@adrinathegreat3095 What's VAW-zh mean, lol? Maybe you meant 'vague'? See, nothing wrong with people having a little fun. 😂 That's the charm of the show. The first 10 or so seasons with Carenza were definitely better though because there was better chemistry. And Robin Bush added something during that time too. So I'm agreeing with you, I guess. Now where's me beer? Lmao.😊

[@michellestratford9753]

Every time i see Phil dig, i cant help but think of his future back and wrist problems 🥰

[@CAL1MBO]

This show was the absolute business.

[@amc5966]

Wow! Robinson, Big Phil and the boy wonder Foyle back on our screens together. Love it!

[@martinputt6421]

This is from 2012

[@jeannienash5249]

Great to see you @Sir Tony Robinson and @Phil Harding ❤

[@janinebean4276]

That’s actually incredibly clever to preserve a historical site by building around and over it and making it a FEATURE of the building, that’s brilliant! It would actually preserve the site better while allowing people to appreciate it because you wouldn’t have to bury it to preserve it! Awesome.

[@janinebean4276]

I always get nervous that they’re scratching the bricks with those scrapers lol!

[@kerriefearby9542]

Love Phil in his new "going ta town hat"

[@cherylmaden5989]

It's his "Indiana Jones" hat😂❤

[@RealHouseMouse2]

Looks like Tony has not aged a day since the last season of TT, and Phil’s got a new hat

[@RKHageman]

This special was made in 2012.

[@barbaras7143]

@@iamperplexed4695 As far as I know, Phil Harding is alive and well --as of 9:34 p.m. November 25th 2023.

[@TheSouthernLady777]

​@@barbaras7143I sure hope so! That person saying that is being mean.

[@punksci6879]

@@TheSouthernLady777 I think they're getting confused with Mick Aston, he was a cool dude and I'm sure inspired many young people to go into archeology.

[@RealHouseMouse2]

@@RKHageman My bad, I thought it was a brand new episode

[@arjanverbrugge9899]

This tv endevour is my all time favorite!

[@JRMcVay]

So excited to see Phil back!

[@greggreggy5954]

Phil...what a legend

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

This is from 2012

[@bellaluna9408]

I grew up with this being my Sunday evening treat watching it with my parents. History has always been one of my favourite subjects this is is just amazing ❤️❤️ love Phil and Tony x

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

Same..As a youngster watching TT with the family I hated it and thought it was boring as hell but when you grow up and mature things change.But imagine bringing this great historic program to an end only to be replaced by utter rubbish..Sad..SMH

[@dalegowing]

Very good I’ve been to Stratford to visit shakespere and his final resting place. A magnificent place it has a wonderful feeling about it.

[@TheZogislost]

I just donated a copy of the complete works of shakespeare to a littlefreelibrary yesterday and then got a notice this episode was premiering today on the youtube channel! I should donate more books!

[@man.inblack]

DONATE TREASURE ISLAND!! 💰

[@markberman6708]

I love to comment so I'm sure I'll come back to 'edit', I just had to immediately say how wildly fun it is to see Phil on a new episode and particularly digging for Shakespeare. Just wow and exciting! Many years ago I saw Hamlet at stratford upon Avon with my parents.. Shakespeare was the man!!!

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

It isn't a new episode it's from 2012..

[@marvwatkins7029]

Tony & the 'other' Dr. Phil. Wanna see more of them.

[@dmg4415]

John and Stewart and some banter was what I missed.

[@greggreggy5954]

lets get the team back

[@cherylmaden5989]

" we're getting the band back together"❤😂

[@JonettaWakely]

As a veteran Time Team watcher (I watch it every day) it is a little bittersweet to see this episode. I want more and more and more and more, etc

[@allygee5468]

Yeah, it was great to see Phil back. Thanks, Tony really interesting as always Time Team is one of the best shows

[@turnerg]

This dig and episode is from 2012

[@therhaegar107]

Hope there’s a beer and some cheers! LFG Phil!

[@tracycombs1484]

The preamble of the will and the itemization of bequests are very formulaic. Shakespeare left the bulk of his property to his two daughters: Susanna Hall, his first child, and Judith Quiney. He left money and clothes to his sister Joan Hart and her three sons (the name of the third son, Thomas, is left blank), and plate to his grand-daughter Elizabeth Hall, whom he refers to as his niece. The will also makes bequests of his various properties: New Place; the house on Henley Street in which he was born; the tithes purchased in 1605; the Combe property; the cottage near New Place; and the Blackfriars gatehouse in London. His monetary bequests add up to roughly £350. The only specific objects he bequeaths are a large silver gilt bowl to his daughter Judith; a sword to Thomas Combe, the nephew of his friend John; his clothing to his sister Joan; and his second best bed to his wife. Shakespeare left a gift of £10 to the poor of Stratford, as well as bequests to his overseer, Thomas Russell, and his lawyer, Francis Collins. He left 26 shillings and 8 pence each to his theatrical fellows Richard Burbage, John Heminges, and Henry Condell, as well as to Hamnet Sadler, William Reynolds, and Anthony and John Nash, to buy mourning rings. Scholars have tended to focus on five main issues in the will. It has often been noted that Shakespeare's only mention of his wife Anne Hathaway reads as an afterthought: an interlineal insertion on the last leaf, where he bequeaths her the "second best bed with the furniture" (valance, hangings, linen, etc.) While this has been read as a slight to Anne, the language was not entirely unusual.

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

Far from being a slight. Terribly romantic actually. The "second best bed" would have been the one they shared. The best bed was for company. The marital bed, second best, was the one they had their first night on, the one their children were conceived in and the one they shared hopes and dreams in.

[@silva7493]

I'm really excited to see this!!! I'm not even a Shakespeare person. Just... WOW!

[@jimfisher2451]

I love this show, actually the people who do the work. From Oregon in the Pacific NW of the U.S.

[@ellen4956]

This one is from 2012, but they have a new team now. I miss the old Time Team but there are a lot of seasons available online.

[@bettyboadwine4890]

I do truly love , love these old specials and episodes.

[@kalaysia77]

OMG! Phill has a spanking NEW HAT!!! 😂❤

[@user-tt8xf9td6b]

It was great to see Phil back! I sure do hope, though, that they didn't make him get a new hat before filming began.

[@cg256y9]

He's not back. This is a special from 2012 uploaded again as a "TT Classic".

[@suziedobbs863]

Love Tony & harding! ❤❤ I love watching time team! It's awesome to see these things on my cell phone or TV that I will probably never see in my life in person thank you ❤

[@AyaInspiredTarot]

Awww Phil's chemistry with the girl brewing the beer was cute af

[@charmainede-bell8763]

"A sniff of Shakespeare's pants". Tony-

[@thirza9508]

26:19 "Microwaving the lawn" I cackled at that😂

[@OMA_MetalDetecting]

This is a fantastic episode and riddled with all that is great about Britishness.. William Shakespeare (you can’t get more british than that) and Phil Harding tanked up on ale and blissfully merry at the thought of having to drink 7 more tankards of it. It’s more British than the Union Jack itself!

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

What I find interesting is just how much ground gets removed. In science your told about layers of the earth, and it gives you this impression that one inch would take thousands of years, here that's a good foot and a half, amazing how we change the landscape.

[@Billtownhistorian]

❤Phil wants again is a brilliant archeologist and a amazing person to watch on tv bravo to him ❤

[@chrissibersky4617]

The host of this show is the singer of British rock band Iron Maiden. Very multitalented man.

[@devinecatlady]

Are you referring to Tony Robinson? Or another member of this team of archeologists? Tony may look familiar but he's definitely not linked to a band. He became best known earlier on as Balderick in the British tv series, Black Adder. I'm interested which person you're referring to 🙂 (Edited to correct autocorrected name from Phil to Tony)

[@chrissibersky4617]

@@devinecatlady Isn't his name Tony? I don't know if KZbin allows me to write his stage name..? It's *ick in son.

[@devinecatlady]

@@chrissibersky4617 bloody autocorrect. Yes TONY Robinson. Sigh 🙄

[@frederickvondinkerberg7721]

You're thinking of Bruce... totally different person

[@Happyheretic2308]

Nonsense.

[@Celandine2]

I saw Richard III with Christopher Plumber in Stratford, standing for the whole performance with other school kids back of the seats. What a memory! Time Team is the BEST!

[@cherylmaden5989]

I'm super jealous. I discovered Plummer with Sound of Music when I was a little girl and I have been thrilled to see all of his other work. I would give an awful lot to see what you saw on a school field trip no less!❤

[@EmeraldVideosNL]

This is wonderful. Stratford-upon-Avon is one of the few places in the British Isles that I visited, as part of an excursion from my studies in English Literature. What a thrill to see the Time Team, that I watched as a teen, at the place I visited not 2 years earlier. I vividly remember visiting all the old houses connected to the man, Birth Place, Old Place, New Place, his grave, Anne Hathaway's cottage and Mary Arden's farm. Fond memories that make this episode shine all the more for me.😊 I imagine that is what many Brits felt as Time Team visited their familiar places all over their lands.

[@LostInSpace175]

Phils laugh is so contagous! I bet that beer tasted great!

[@donnavorce8856]

25:07 If that were my tree, I'd say Shakespeare might be slightly more important than a tree planted in 1947. But that's just me.

[@themightyspoon9641]

Cheers Tiny Tony you’re a bloody legend.

[@gregorydaines]

The ads in this are relentless

[@tracycombs1484]

I would love to go to Strafford on Avon to look more into my family history. My family (Combs/Coombes/Coombs) several different spellings and the Shakespeare family knew each other. My family supposedly sold Shakespeare land and was also in Shakespeare's Last Will.

[@johndaut2838]

At 240 pennies to the pound in 1600, 2,500 people would bring in about 10 and 1/2 pounds a night. Not to shabby!

[@denniskonijn2869]

Yes Tony very Nice i love to see of Time team.

[@michaelrichardson5395]

Great episode will be watching later tonight

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Yes, Phil and Tony

[@Rhonda-vq3cx]

Hello Tony and Phil. This was so enjoyable to watch.❤

[@user-ym7gl1gn9c]

Im watching time #5 right now

[@fraeris1]

I'm ready and really looking forward to this 🙂

[@CanChikMay]

Welcome back Tony, Phil and Mary Ann! Love seeing you all.

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

This is just a reupload from 2012..

[@tracycombs1484]

Speaking of the church where Shakespeare is buried...my family are buried there too. On the left hand side there should be a epitaph of two busts I believe. Also one tomb belonging to John Combs

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

What is your opinion on "The Theatre of fine devises conteyning an hundred Morrall Emblems translated out of French by Thomas Combe", published by Richard Field in 1594. Was that one of your Thomas Combes?

[@tracycombs1484]

@Jeffhowardmeade couldn't say ?? I'd have to look into it. I know there is a mention of a Thomas Combes.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@@tracycombs1484 There were two Thomases, as I recall, possibly father and son. One, who held the other share of Stratford tithes, died in 1609/8. The other was the recipient of Shakespeare's sword. I read somewhere that the one who got the sword was a lawyer trained at the Middle Temple, but he would have been too young to have been the translator of The Theatre, if indeed said translator was a Stratford Combe at all.

[@summerlaliberte4237]

My family is buried there as well! Their home is still standing, as well. The "Harvard House," although my family name is Rogers. Katherine Rogers was John Harvard's mother. Rumor has it that it was Shakespeare who played matchmaker to Robert Harvard & Katherine Rogers ❤

[@carlbarkham3115]

Waited while I watched, saw it it 999 likes so I hit that button to make a grand. Then switched to full screen b

[@ianwillis3761]

this sounds awesome 😎.. can't wait to see!!👍👍👍.. loved it, well done Time Team.. Keep em coming..😍😍😍

[@nickharmer3049]

Well done team.! Great stuff.!! Bless 👊

[@naschelletaylor8440]

Thank you Thank you thank you! I have been wanting to see this episode forever!

[@CraigLYoung]

It's great to see Phil again.

[@AppalachiaRRlover]

Yay Phil is back!!!!

[@johnbacon1854]

Lovely episode. I have visited there, a few years back before this dig of course. There qas a wonderful feeling of spomething a little special about the town. It felt welcoming, friendly and history was very evident all around. The building across from the dig I remember visiting with the shops underneath. The river close by with the beautiful bridge leading to the Butterfly sanctuary. I sat at the river bank for a while having fish and chipc with a dear friend watching the swans and geese swim by. Lovely place.

[@joannemoore3976]

I moved to Stratford-upon-Avon just over 2 years ago from just outside Birmingham because I have always loved the place. I can walk into the town or out into the Welcombe Hills in 20-25 minutes. Whenever I cross the bridge over the river and look down toward Holy Trinity, I have to pinch myself that I live here. There is a magic about it. They had a nice exhibition at New Place and Nash's house this summer, including a seal ring found in 1810 between the site of the house and the church, bearing the initials WS.

[@annfahy2589]

It does say classic and theres a new episode with our Tony😊

[@Izakdt]

Thank you so much for this and all the others. From South Africa

[@joekenorer]

Good episode, good image quality too.

[@MissAnathemaDevice]

This is so exciting

[@trinkab]

"I know someone who'll do **that**! (walks away)BADLY, but he will do it." "While Jimmy is microwaving the lawn..." Oh Tony!😂😂😂😂

[@mettevunsjensen4094]

Great episode😊

[@thatcanadianwhitetrashguy]

Good Job Guys

[@williamhiller3988]

Lovely surprise. Thank you!

[@vivekp.5210]

So happy to hear Baldrick & Phil ❤

[@jimfisher2451]

Actually, it’s Sir Baldrick.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@b-positiveginny]

Like you Gys so much... God bless you❣️

[@Ms.W529]

I loved this the first time too

[@RangerTam]

Yesss! Keep the specials coming please @TimeTeamOfficial! I have a slowly shrinking word doc of all the specials I haven't managed to find on the internet at all and watch, and this is one of them! Found you during pandemic and unashamed to admit I've watched the regular seasons three times since then (and yes, I'm a Patreon member). Would love it if you did a submission post to see what other specials people really want posted, or if you ended up posting them all!

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

This is from 2012..

[@RangerTam]

I am aware of that. My list also has when it originally aired and filming locations on it. There’s a lot of specials from the old seasons on KZbin, but not all of them. Thanks to TT posting classic specials, my list is getting shorter though!​@@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR

[@neilfleming2787]

always hated having the public right over my shoulder when digging. I dug at Bignor Roman villa many years ago and I did a test pit on the pathway up to the villa (loads of loose tesserae for a 1m sq hole)

[@callmemonkh9020]

Those closing statements about the house's ACTUAL location...within the plot, were SO DUBIOUS! ....they lie, frequently, too.

[@HanGoorhuis]

I really have to thank you for the very comprehensive explanation of the archeological doings and at the same time very entertaining. Being Dutch I'm not able to see most of these programmes. KZbin, therefore is my only source of Britains history. Hope to enjoy more episodes in the (near) future. With the most regards, Han.

[@TimeTeamOfficial]

Thank you for the support

[@Davlavi]

Very cool.

[@MossyMozart]

Are there further plans to keep exploring the site in the near future? -- Hudson River Valley of New York, USA here, watching with cold hands. -- (PS: There is no evidence that Shakespeare was not the playwright of his own work. Indeed, there is plenty of evidence that points to his authorship, the "First Folio" being one bit when just a few years after his death, his theater friends got together to publish it.)

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

This is from 2012

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

@@topherthe11th23 What areyou talking about?? Lols

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

@@topherthe11th23 I was only saying what year this video was recorded I don't know nothing about Shakespeare??

[@liannebedard5521]

New to me..,how fantastic!

[@1000left]

Eight pints of ale a day??!!! No wonder no one remembered exactly where Shakespeare's house was!!!!

[@sallybrown5981]

Every American high schooler has to read Romeo and Juliet imagine My favorite play which i picked for our prom theme A midsummer night dream

[@randalmayeux8880]

Yeah Sally, we read Julius Caesar in 9th grade and Romeo and Juliet in 10th grade. We also had to do memorizations from the plays. I was assigned the prologue to Romeo and Juliet, which I still remember after all these years. Two households/ both alike in dignity/ in fair Verona/ where we lay our scene/ from ancient grudge/ break to new mutiny/ where civil blood leave civil hands unclean/ from forth the fatal loins of these two foes/ a pair of star crossed lovers take their lives....etc.

[@jmc7034]

Fantastic

[@samrodian919]

At 14.34 " A tuning FORK from something like a Bass Viol" it's a Tuning PEG for the string laugh out bloody loud! Have you ever seen a one legged fork before? Duh, the clue is in the name mate!

[@layalabi1667]

Thank you!!

[@peterlinley6520]

Great episode 👏 Keep up the good work.

[@judyholdsworth7096]

Thanks ❤️

[@starlightdragon6862]

anyone else notice the globe theater Tony visits is the one they filmed the Shakespeare episode of Dr. Who in. Series 3 Episode 2, Freema Agyeman as Martha and David Tennant as the Doctor. no,... I'm FIRST. COOL

[@j3kfd9j]

I also thought of that episode!

[@TheLadyT23]

I thought it was a new episode then saw it was from 2012! 😢

[@annazaman9657]

All the other houses contemporary to Shakespeare's house are still standing, yet his house was demolished. So sad

[@billmmckelvie5188]

No, they are accountable, if not in this life, but in the next! I cannot judge people but I can draw attention to it.

[@richardcastle3204]

Fond memories of those early episodes in the 90s, when Professor Alice Roberts was just "Alice", a background digger who might be given a couple of words to say if she was lucky. So Shakespeare the man remains just as much an enigma as before. Perhaps that's how it should be.

[@frankrshirer8851]

Did the group doing the dig at New Place close down the project in 2012 or did they continue on during the following years? If there have been more excavations at New Place, I'd enjoy hearing about what was found. Putting out a short piece like that done by Helen Geake at the historic theater in Norfolk. Thanks.

[@maja393]

Hello Phil! 👋

[@user-ob7ux4me9i]

good

[@teleiosdawyz4044]

Unkle Phil! Someone buy that man a pint!

[@Shaden0040]

This archeological dig is interesting, but I'd also be like to find out and be interested in if Shakespeare has any living descendants left? Is it possible are there any remains of William Shakespeare known? or is close relatives like children or grandchildren? That can be tested genetically to find out if there are any current day living descendants of Shakespeare? and out of those peoples now living in Stratford Alfa and Avon How many of them have his genetic fingerprint?