For anyone who has ancestors who worked in theatres, Alan Ruston aims to set the family historian on their way by providing a guide to the record sources. This book covers those performing arts dependent on text, spoken or sung, on stage. It includes theatres, music halls, pantomimes, variety shows and vaudeville.
Alan provides a brief history of the theatre in Britain and identifies the libraries and other places where you can find records. Chapters include newspapers, playbills, biographies, fairs and circuses, sources in Ireland and Scotland, and specialist archives and collections. There are also some examples of how Victorian showmen were successfully traced and researched.
Author: Alan Ruston
Published: 2005.