Victoria and Albert Museum

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The V&A's Theatre and Performance collections chart the history of Music Hall and Variety Theatre. From early song and supper rooms to West End music halls, the birth of the Royal Variety Performance and the rise of Revue in the 20th century.

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Grace, Beauty and Banjos: Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes (Paperback)

Grace, Beauty and Banjos: Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes (Paperback)

This valuable and wonderfully amusing record of popular entertainment, written by the musical hall expert and performer Michael Kilgarriff, includes w…

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Event - Haberdashers' Hall

Mon 08 July 2013 14:00

Designed by Michael Hopkins and Partners, the Haberdashers’ 4th Livery Hall was officially opened in October 2002 by the Queen.

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