Edwardian Halls

Enjoy reading through the following pages on Edwardian halls and discover how music hall culture transitioned into that of variety theatre.

Further reading specific to Edwardian Halls:

F. Bruce & A. Foley, More Variety (Tod Press, 2000).
O. Double, Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Simon Featherstone, 'The Epitome of National Life: Metropolitan Music Hall and Variety Theatre, 1913 - 1919' in Andrew Maunder (ed.), British Theatre and the Great War, 1914 - 1919 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
S. Gerrard, "The Great British Music Hall: Its Importance to British Culture and 'The Trivial" in Culture Unbound, 5 (2013), pp. 487-513.
J. Mullen, "You Can't Help Laughing, Can You?' Humour and Symbolic Entertainment in British Music Hall Song during the Great War" in Karen Ritzenhoff (ed.), Humour, Entertainment and Popular Culture During World War I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
J. Mullen, 'The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War (Routledge, 2016).