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Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) discusses a project which he undertook in 2014 with the British Library Labs to find and revive thousands of forgotten Victorian jokes. His ‘Victorian Meme Machine’...
Lionel Blair traces the origins of the Music Hall back to the days of the riotous Bartholomew Fayres of the Middle Ages through to the performers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens of the 19th Century. He...
Video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn’ and Victorian Music Hall, directed by John Caird, recorded at the Britten Theatre in December 1999, and...
Highlights the contributions of black Britons active in the worlds of boxing and music hall during the early part of the century. Uses oral testimonies, archive footage and music of the period to chart one...
Charles Morton’s famous Canterbury Hall was a big song room - a hall attached to a tavern where eating and drinking customers were provided with a varied, mainly vocal entertainment. The music hall...
Illustrates the design, history and use of the oldest surviving music hall in Great Britain. Opened in 1859, Wilton’s is especially interesting because it has remained virtually unaltered, never having...
A popular comic song that was originally performed in the music halls of the 1830s by Mr W Smith. Transcribed for concertina accompaniment, it is here performed by Peter Honri at the City Varieties, Leeds.
A collection of film material held in the National Film and Television archive. Contents: 1) RECORDS OF FAMOUS MUSIC HALL ARTISTS (4 min): a composite silent film of surviving fragmentary newsreel glimpses...
A compilation of the work of Winsor McCay, one of the founding fathers of cinema animation and a key figure in the development of cinema. He became famous as a newspaper strip cartoonist, then developed a...
Studio performance - with no audience but with a set of sorts and musical accompaniment dubbed over - filmed for the Paris exhibition in the early years of this century. Shows Little Tich (Harry Relph) doing...
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