| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Description | Research file compiled by Max Tyler containing various articles and publications featuring music hall. Containing:
Folder one:
Photocopy of article from The Times dated May 23rd, 1997. Titled 'Music hall takes encore as quick-change theatre' and written by Dalya Alberge.
Photocopy of book chapter 'Contemporary Collectors XXXIII: British song books and kindred subjects', published in The Book Collector, 1962.
Photocopy of chapters 1 and 2 from London Overlooked by Geoffrey Fletcher. The chapters are titled 'The magic of the halls[1]' and 'The magic of the halls [2]'.
Printed copy of essay 'Discuss the effects of the Great War on music hall' by an unknown author.
Printed copy of a presentaton about The Grand Thetare, Blackpool, given at the National Festival of Music Hall and Variety' on 17th July, 2005, in London.
Excised pages from the magazine Elam containing an article titled 'Wilton's for the East End'. Undated.
Excised pages from the Camden History Review journal, volume 19 (1995), featuring an article titled 'The rise and fall of Sickert's dear old Bedford "... the Alhambra of Camden-town"' by Marian Kamlish.
Souvenir programme for 'Direct from the USA, Jimmy Osmond's American Jukebox show', performed at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, in 2005.
Excised pages from MQ magazine featuring an article 'Chelsea Lodge: that's entertainment'. Undated.
Photocopy of 'History of the G.O.W.R. 1889-1947' by Fred Russell.
Photocopy of article from History Today titled 'Changing the tune: popular music in the 1890s', by Ian Bradley. Dated July 1992.
Photocopy of article 'American sheet music in the Walter N.H. Harding collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University', by Jean Geil.
Excised pages from The Victorian magazine featuring an article 'The tale of Little Erskine', published November 2000.
Correspondence from Raymond Dolling to Max Tyler regarding Pete Collins, dated 29th January, 2008. Accompanied by an article written by Dolling about Pete Collins.
Folder two:
Photocopies of 3 Arthur Ferrier cartoons from News of the World dated circa 1939-1940.
Printed copy of article 'Minnie Who-Ha!: a short investigation into the life and songs of Minnie Cunningham' written by Peter Charlton.
Printed copy of press cuttings published on 'John Culme's Footlight Notes' website. Subjects of the articles include The Sisters M'Nulty, Kate Carney, Kitty Beresford, Florrie Gallimore, and Stanley Logan and Mabel Green.
Printed copy of the CV of Frank Milo Scheide.
Printed document containing endnotes and a bibliography for an unknown publication.
Photocopy of article 'Christmas music' by Malcolm Lawson, published in The Playgoer, 1901.
Photocopy of article 'Collecting music hall books' from an unknown publication. Undated.
Wiltshire Family History Society journal, issue number 104, January 2007.
Printed copy of essay 'An American view of a music hall weekend' by Frank Scheide.
Excised pages from an unknown magazine featuring an article 'Meet the usical masterminds' about the "biggest collection in Europe" of sheet music.
Printed copies of two articles about Dan Leno, the first titled 'Dan Leno fact: Beerbohm - Leno and the music halls' and 'Dan Leno fiction: Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the limehouse golem (1994)'.
Printed copy of article 'The life and crime of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen: mild mannered murderer or calculated killer?' by John Crawford, 2004.
Photocopy of Box On! magazine (undated) featuring an article 'The history of "the ring" Blackfriars"', by Stephen Powell.
Printed list of 'Hidden panto chracters'.
Excised pages from Journal of Victorian Culture, (Volume 3, Issue 2 - 1998) featuring an article 'The blackface atlantic: interpreting British minstrelsy' by Simon Featherstone.
Excised pages from History Today (January 1990) featuring an article 'Political heroes of the Victorian music hall' by Michael Diamond.
Printed copy of various pages from the website 'WelcomeHome', relating to Arthur Lloyd and music hall.
2 printed copies of essay 'Visiting Charlie Chaplin's London today' by Frank Scheide.
Who Do You Think You Are? magazine, issue 2, published November 2007. Includes a database of 'Railway Ancestors'. |
| Admin history | Transferred to the University of Kent in May 2018. |