Shakespeare APPG

First Registered: 22/02/2023 • Last updated on: 12/02/2025

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To promote Shakespeare’s work in the community, including to explore the teaching and learning of Shakespeare in educational settings; to embed accessibility in Shakespeare’s works as staged, translated, adapted and performed, including BSL (British Sign Language); to explore Shakespeare’s literary, cultural and performance body of work, including translations and adaptations, as intangible world heritage.

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Reticulating Splines
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4 Current APPG Officers
Manuela Perteghella Portrait
Manuela Perteghella
Chair & Registered Contact
Liberal Democrat - Stratford-on-Avon
Joined: 12th February 2025
4 APPG Memberships
Citizens' Rights , Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , Italy , Visual Arts and Artists
James Wild Portrait
James Wild
Vice Chair
Conservative - North West Norfolk
Joined: 12th February 2025
2 APPG Memberships
Dark Skies , Parkrun
Neil Coyle Portrait
Neil Coyle
Vice Chair
Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Joined: 12th February 2025
2 APPG Memberships
Food Banks , Housing and Care for Older People
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury Portrait
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 12th February 2025
6 APPG Memberships
BBC , Italy , ITV , Media , Mexico , Publishing
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Manuela Perteghella MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: manuela.perteghella.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Paul Boatright-Greene, Office of Manuela Perteghella MP. Tel: 01789 453 077

Email: paul.boatrightgreene@parliament.uk

Secretariat:

The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/shakespeare

No benefits in kind are on record for the Shakespeare APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Shakespeare APPG

Former APPG Officers
James Morris Portrait
James Morris
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Halesowen and Rowley Regis
Joined: 22nd February 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Gary Sambrook Portrait
Gary Sambrook
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Birmingham, Northfield
Joined: 22nd February 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
William Wragg Portrait
William Wragg
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Hazel Grove
Joined: 22nd February 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
George Howarth Portrait
George Howarth
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Knowsley
Joined: 22nd February 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships