Music Hall and Variety reading list
Alexander, John, Tearing Tickets Twice Nightly:The Last Days of Variety S.l., Arcady Press, c2002
Bailey, Peter, ed., Music Hall: The Business of Pleasure, Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1986
Bergen, Edgar, How To Become a Ventriloquist, Mineola: Dover Publications, 2000
Bratton, J.S., ed., Music Hall: Performance & Style, Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1986
Bruce, Frank, More Variety Days: Fairs, Fit-ups, Music hall, Variety Theatre, Clubs, Cruises and Cabaret Edinburgh, Tod Press, 2000
Busby, Roy, British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's Who from 1850 to the Present Day, London: Paul Elek,1976
Cheshire, D.F., Music Hall in Britain, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974
Connor, Steven, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000
Earl, John, British Theatres and Music Halls, Princes Risborough, Shire, 2005
Garrett, John M., Sixty Years of British Music Hall, London, Chappell & Company in association with Andre Deutsch, 1976
Green, Benny, ed., The Last Empires: A Music Hall Companion, London, Pavilion Books Ltd. in association with Michael Joseph Ltd., 1986
Hudd, Roy, Music Hall, London, Eyre Methuen, 1976
Maloney, Paul, Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003
Mander, Raymond, and Mitchenson, Joe, British Music Hall, revised ed., London, Gentry Books, 1974
Mellor, G.J., The Northern Music Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Frank Graham, 1970
Mellor, G.J., They Made us Laugh: A Compendium Of Comedians Whose Memories Remain Alive, Littleborough, George Kelsall, 1982
O'Gorman, Brian, Laughter in the Roar: Reminiscences of Variety and Pantomime, Weybridge, B. O'Gorman, 1998
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
31 March–12 August 2012
Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.
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Music, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Custom print)
Music, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (A4 Print, Satin Finish)
Buy nowEvent - Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship : Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times
Thu 19 July 2012 10:30

CONFERENCE: The V&A and the University of Reading are organising an international conference related to the major AHRC project, ‘Giving Voice to the Nation': the Arts Council of Great Britain and the development of theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1995.
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