This week’s historical highlights feature Shakespeare events, World War II communications, Ancient Egyptian fossil collections, the first British newspaper in India, and a few other links.

Next month you can catch a movie at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s “Bardfest,” which will feature 21 Shakespeare-related films.

Another commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death is the First Folio tour by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

This eye-opening article describes a day in the life of a digitization expert. (If you’re curious about this field, definitely check it out because it’s full of detail and photos.)

What can we learn about mail in World War II from one soldier’s diary?

Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians collected fossils?

Or that “The First British Newspaper in India Was a Hilarious, Irreverent Quasi-Tabloid”?

A century ago Ferdinand Brunot, the founder of the Archives of the Spoken Word,  recorded oral testimonies, dialogues, folk tales and songs in rural France. Learn more here.

Enrollment in history courses is dropping in American universities.

If you’re up for a philosophical read, you might like to tackle “Are We Really So Modern?”

I hope you have a very lovely weekend. (I’m in New Brunswick and heading to Ontario next, visiting as many friends and family as I can during a 10-day vacation!)