Entertainment
www.peopleplayuk.org
The website of the National Museum of Performing Arts Covers Theatre, Pantomime, Musicals, Opera , Dance , Puppetry and Circus
www.its-behind-you.com for Pantomime.
Northern Music hall entrepreneurs
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/mike...ew_page_11.htm
Covers a range of topics, with many links, which include Moss Empire theatres, Barrasford Halls, the Stoll tour, and artists including Sir Harry Lauder & Old Mother Riley
Music Hall
http://www.amaranthdesign.ca/musichall/past/past.htm
Harry Champion, Albert Chevalier, Gus Elen, Dan Lemo, Marie Lloyd, George Robey, Vesta Victoria Song lyrics
Stars of the Music Hall
Vesta Tilley – music hall star
biography, photographs/drawings, song titles (but not lyrics) her ancestry
http://www.casselden.webspace.unisonplus.net/
Arthur Lucan (Old Mother Riley) – star of music hall, pantomime, films, radio.
Biography, stage career, family members
http://www.peterwilkinson.karoo.net/omr.htm
Marie Lloyd – music hall star
http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/guide...tars/lloyd.php ( also has links to other stars)
http://www.amaranthdesign.ca/musichall/past/lloyd.htm ( also has links to other stars)
www.fairground-heritage.org.uk/index.htm - history of the fairground
http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Travellers.html -
An index of some Showmen, Circus and Fairground Travellers 1861-1915 - also some newspaper clippings and photos
www.rtfhs.org.uk - The Romany and Traveller Family History Society
www.shef.ac.uk/nfa - The National Fairground Archive
Actors, Dancers, Musicians, Filmmakers and Animators
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhuman...artistindex.pl
A directory of ACTORS, DANCERS, MUSICIANS, FILMMAKERS and ANIMATORS
Scottish Theatre
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/STA/index.html Scottish Theatre Archive
Scottish theatre archives
Playbills from The Theatre Royal in Edinburgh http://www.nls.uk/playbills/ Playbills of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh - National Library of Scotland
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jassie/theatre/ THEATRE-UK
http://www.applausesw.org/database/archive.htm Plymouth Library's theatre archives
http://www.mgthomas.co.uk/dancebands...ians-index.htm
British Dance Band music and musicians
