| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Description | Research file compiled by Max Tyler containing various articles and publications featuring music hall. Containing:
Folder one:
Printed copy of dissertation - 'The audience for drag performance has changed significantly since the music hall performances of the late nineteenth century' by Liz terry, dated 4th june, 1999.
Photocopy of article 'Collecting music hall books', by Barry Anthony, published in an unknown publicaton.
Photocopy of article 'A very queer cricket match' by Gavin Macdonald, published in The Harmsworth Magazine.
Photocopy of article 'Collecting old sheet music', by Brian Murdoch, published in an unknown publicaton.
Excised pages from an unknown magazine, featuring an article 'Music hall performers' by Hannah Renier.
Photocopy of images of Ada Reeve from The Playgoer, dated December 1901.
Photocopy of article 'Glorious beer!' by Christopher Pulling, published in House of Whitbread magazine, Vol. 23, no. 2, August 1963.
Printed copy of article 'Censorship on the British Music Halls' by Michael Kilgarriff, dated October 2010.
Newspaper cutting of an article 'Down to a tea' by Richard A. Baker (unknown date and publication).
Printed copy of article 'This is music-hall' by Tommy Trinder, originally published in the Radio Times, October 1955.
Photocopy of various newspaper article, publication and date unknown.
Excised pages from Notes and Records of the Royal Society featuring an article 'Sea lions, greasepaint and the U-boat threat: admiralty scientists turn to the music hall in 1916' by David Wilson. Published in volume 55, number 3, 2001.
Photocopy of booklet 'The life and reminiscences of E.W. Mackney' by Alan Bennett, accompanied by correspondence from Alan Bennett to Max Tyler regarding the booklet.
Printed leaflet from the London Metropolitan Archives (number 28).
Photocopy of article published in The Listener, 29 December 1938, titled 'Champagne Charlie' by Arthur Hayward.
Essat titled '"Our power should gain us respect" - comic singers and music hall respectability, 1880-1910' (unknown author, undated).
Centre Stage magazine number 2, dated December 1994.
Photocopy of article 'Politics as entertainment: Victorian music-hall songs', by Laurence Senelick, dated December 1975.
Printed copy of 'Some songs of R.P. Weston', featuring a short article followed by a listing of songs performed by R.P. Weston.
Printed copy of article 'Music and social class in Victorian London', by Derek B. Scott, published in Urban History, vol. 29, no. 1, 2002.
Printed copy of dissertation '"It's behind you?...""...Oh no it isn't!" An exploration of the origins of pantomime and it's durability as a form of popular theatre', by Kate Salmon, May 1996.
Photocopy of book chapter 'We carved our way to glory - the british soldier in music hall song and sketch, c.1880-1914', by Dave Russell, published in 'Popular imperalism and the military' by John M. MacKenzie.
Photocopy of book chapter 'Legitimate theater vs the English music hall: the legal repression of dramatic expression on London's variety stage, 1899-1912', by Frank Scheide, published in 'Free speech yearbook', 1990.
Folder two:
Printed copy of play 'Give three cheers for Victoria's volunteers', by Kate Hounsell-Roberts.
Typed copy of article published in the World Encyclopedia of Puppetry', titled 'British music hall and variety theatre', by John Phillips. Accompanied by a short letter from John to Max Tyler, dated 28th April 1997.
Printed copy of article 'The influence of English music hall on early screen performance' by Frank Scheide, performed at Moving Performance event in Bristol, Janaury 1996.
Printed copy of article 'Pictures at the Palace' by Graeme Cruickshank, dated 1997.
Printed document titled 'Stars of the dramatic stage appearing at The Palace Theatre of Varieties, London, 1892-1914.
Photocopy of programme from the Middlesex Music Hall, dated January 28th, 1901 and featuring 'Brown & Kelly Combination - the Trilby Muddle' (highlighted). |
| Admin history | Transferred to the University of Kent in May 2018. |