| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Description | Research file compiled by Max Tyler containing articles related to music hall. Contains: Newspaper article from The Stage, dated August 2nd, 2001, titled 'Making an impression' and about Cissie Loftus. Written by Michael Kilgarriff. Newspaper article from The Sunday Telegraph. dated 29th March, 1998, titled 'It's all a question of breeding' and about The Tichbourne Claimant. Written by Rohan McWilliam. Photocopy of article 'Remembering Fred W. Leigh' from the New South Gate Newsletter, dated Winter 2001. Printed copy of an article titled 'Music hall's view of suffragettes' (unknown date and author). Photocopy of article 'A Briton true?' by Peter Davison. Article from Observer Magazine, dated 21st December, 1975, titled 'The star of Christmas' about Dan Leno. Written by Richard Findlater. Photocopy of article from the Harvard Library Bulletin titled 'A brief life and times of the Victorian Music-Hall' (undated). Article titled 'Will Wilton's music hall live again?' by David Buckman (unknown date and publication). Photocopied book chapter from 'Women preachers and prophets through two millenia of Christianity', titled 'A chaste and fervid eloquence: Catherine Booth and the Ministry of Women in the Salvation Army' by Pamela J. Walker. Printed copy of article 'A history of Blackpool' (unknown author). Photocopy of a 'List of Artists' from 'Modern Troubadours', 1922, by Lena Ashwell, O.B.E. Printed list of events in Blackpool, includes date, name of event, price and venue (year unknown). Photocopy of article from Victorian Studies, titled 'Politics as Entertainment: Victorian Music-Hall Songs', dated December 1975, written by Laurence Senelick. Advertisement for 'Old Theatres' magazine. Photocopy of article 'Politics & the London music hall one hundred years ago', by Michael Diamond (unknown date and publication). Photocopy of article 'The old and the new', dated 1961 (unknown publication and author). Photocopy of article from The Call Boy, dated July 1966, titled 'Down memory lane...'. Photocopy of article 'Entertainment Artistes Benevolent Fund: 1908-1989 - Eighty-one years old'. Photocopy of press release titled 'The Leslie Grade Wing' (undated). Printed copy of a list of music hall songs by Charles Collins and others (page 4 of 50 only). Photocopy of book 'Illustrated music-titles and their delineators: a handbook for collectors' by W.E Imeson (1911). Printed copy of article 'Sword swallowing and its side effects' by Brian Witcombe, Dan Mayer. Published in BMJ, 23-30 December 2006. Printed copy of list of 'Bradford Pantomimes - Laidler and Afterwards'. Printed copy of webpages from 78rpm.co.uk, featuring British Music Hall "dinosaurs". Photocopy of 'Popular entertainment and the Zulu war' by Michael Diamond, published in Journal of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society, December 1998. Printed copy of thesis section, 'The Sebright Music Hall, Hackney, from '"Crowded nightly": popular entertainment outside London during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries' by Ann Featherstone (Royal Holloway Univeristy of London, 2000). Photocopied article from Family Tree Magazine dated July 1993, titled 'A music hall family', written by Margaret Attfield. Photocopy of article 'On costers and music halls' by Albert Chevalier (unknown date and publication). |
| Admin history | Transferred to the University of Kent in May 2018. |