[1] It now meets monthly between October and May at the Shakespeare Institute, for a series of lectures on a wide range of Shakespeare-related subjects.
On 23 April 1824, Mr Thomas Hyde held a dinner at the Falcon Inn to commemorate Shakespeare's Birthday.
"The first object of the Club was the annual celebration of the poet's birthday as well as the carrying out of a triennial commemoration on a larger scale"[2] This was not however the first occasion on which Stratfordians had independently come together to honour the memory of Shakespeare.
They desire to add, if possible, honour to the memory ... to preserve every relic... to render his works more universally read... and to hand down his writings to posterity".
[11] In November 2016 a full history of the Club was published, written by two long-serving members of the committee, Susan Brock and Sylvia Morris.