This month’s ‘Into the Archives’ article features a poster from 1912 advertising a production at the Bingham Hall. In 1912 the Christmas spirit continued passed Twelfth Night with a mid-January production of the mystery play “Eager Heart” at the Bingham Hall. An article in the Wilts and Glos Standard reported that the play was “given and received with the reverence… Read more

One of the lesser known aspects of the Daniel Bingham Foundation is our Archive of nearly 6,000 items. Its existence is thanks to Sidney Harrison who became librarian of the Bingham Public Library in 1909. He vowed to collect “every book, print, political squib, map, report, catalogue, newspaper, and periodical issued from a printing press in Cirencester, every book written… Read more