Heritage Highlights and Outstanding Outdoor Spaces in the City of Lichfield
Lichfield is a vibrant and historic city with plenty to see and do. From quaint bakeries and cafes, inspiring heritage, … Read More
Events and Exhibitions
A Georgian Christmas
This December, visitors to the Museum can enjoy our special display ‘A Georgian Christmas’. In this month’s blog post, Museum … Read More
Ben the Mouse and the Great Bear
This week marks the start of the school Easter holidays in Staffordshire. The Birthplace Museum would ordinarily be full of … Read More
Bennet Langton and Samuel Johnson
This week Museum volunteer Annemarie Powell finds out more about the friendship of Samuel Johnson and Bennet Langton, inspired by … Read More
Imagination and Reality: Johnson and the use of travelling
Nicola Young explores Johnson’s attitude to travel, using many of his own words, in a piece about her current display. … Read More
A Lesson in Book History & Eighteenth-Century Bookmaking
The museum recently welcomed sixth-form students from King Edward VI School in Lichfield to an Eighteenth-Century Textual Studies workshop, run … Read More
Behind the Scenes: Samuel Johnson at the Lichfield Literature Festival
The weekend of 09 and 10 March 2019 saw a flurry of activity in Lichfield as the Samuel Johnson Birthplace … Read More
Behind The Scenes: How Research at the Samuel Johnson Helped Launch the First Book on Reverend Petit
The story of an important and overlooked Lichfield Victorian, the Reverend John Louis Petit, is to be told in a … Read More
Events: The Willow Project
In 2018, from 23 June to 3 September, the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum installed a writing and drawing activity in … Read More