A very successful Archive Collection ‘on show’ @lambetharchives.bsky.social today. The theme was duos & double-acts, from the very famous to the less well known, on stage & off stage partnerships #musichall #variety

Seeing as I am in Liverpool for #BAVS2026 speaking about #musichall it would be rude not to pop into the Walker Art Gallery to check out their Sickert masterpiece

One week left! 🎈 Final few in-person tickets remaining. Don't miss out on this unique (and free) event! tinyurl.com/WomenInCircus2026

Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA@uoscollections.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Researchers… it’s time to roll up, roll up 🎪 Join The National Fairground and Circus Archive for a one-day symposium on women in circus 🤹‍♀️ Open to the public at the University of Sheffield. Book your free place, online or in-person: tinyurl.com/WomenInCircus2026

#SongSheetSaturday - With England playing Mexico this weekend and World Cup Fever in the air it seems apt that this week's cover has a football theme. 'At the Football Match Last Saturday', a song written by the comedian and singer Mark Sheridan (1864-1918)- recorded in 1905. #MusicHall #Football

Great to attend @apac-ssn.bsky.social meeting at V&A East Storehouse yesterday & hear about all the good work the APAC committee are doing as well hear V&A news. AND to enjoy some David Bowie items & Ronnie Barker ‘taches from their collections

Discover our fantastic line-up of speakers for the Women in Circus Symposium! Beyond excited for this free one-day event on Wednesday 05 August 🎪 Hear from practitioners, academics and researchers at the University of Sheffield. Book your place, in-person or online, by Friday 17 July 🎟️

#MusicHallMonday 🎭 Meet Reg Lever and Elsie Winsor - a duo both on and off the stage - captured here by the lens of Mme Yvonne. Want to see more gems like this? Join us for Archives on Show, Friday, 31 July at 11am. Booking details below 👇 buff.ly/AT9IMbq

For #MusicHallMonday a wonderful item from our ELLA Shields Collection (currently being catalogued) - a torn song sheet and a note to the pianist - 'figure this out yourself' Let's Call It A Day! #musichall #ExploreYourArchive

Looking forward to speaking at this symposium in August 🎪🎠

Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA@uoscollections.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Researchers… it’s time to roll up, roll up 🎪 Join The National Fairground and Circus Archive for a one-day symposium on women in circus 🤹‍♀️ Open to the public at the University of Sheffield. Book your free place, online or in-person: tinyurl.com/WomenInCircus2026

'Metropolitan Theatre', Edgware Road (1963) by David Stapleton (City of Westminster Archives Centre)

'Gallery of the Old Bedford', Camden Town (c.1895) by Walter Sickert (Walker Art Gallery)

Walter Sickert's 'Noctes Ambrosianae,' (1906) holds a pun. Ambrosian Nights: ambrosia is the food of the gods; 'the gods' is the nickname for a theatre's gallery, the high place where the cheap tickets are, where the impecunious, sit.

Very pleased to make it to the final day of Andy Hollingworth’s exhibtion at B’ham Museum & Art Gallery - I Photograph Comedians! Excellent audio guide explaining his process & some iconic images

#MusicHallMonday 🎶🍺 Featuring The Barman, sung with great success by Wilkie Bard. As we prepare for our 3rd conference in Nov. 2026, we’re inviting proposals on the theme: CATERING for People’s Desires and Needs in the Music Hall See Call for Papers on our website: buff.ly/35wQKXA

We had a fantastic talk by Vivi Lachs last night, with opportunities to join in some choruses - incl. “Es iz England” - & to hear how lodgers, courtship, marital strife, and the immigrant experience were common themes in Yiddish song & culture. Thank you to everyone who came, & especially to Vivi.

British Music Hall Society@musichallsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎭 What secrets were hiding in the East End music halls? Discover London's forgotten Cockney Yiddish performers — the songs, laughs & stories from the turn of the 20th century. Talk by Vivi Lachs · Tues 26 May · 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/PrRF2G5

That's a wrap on #MusicHallVarietyDay 2026! 🎭✨ Thanks for joining #MHVD2026 — what a day! As Charles Whittle sang, we want to spend the holidays with you… and we'll be back same time, same place next year. Consider it a date! Follow us on Facebook, Insta & Bluesky, and check our website. 🎶

Rehearsal at the Folies-Bergère, Emilenne D'Alençon and Mariquita

Behind one of Britain's most beloved songs lies a sad story. Mark Sheridan, original singer of 'Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside,' concealed serious depression behind his famously jaunty stage persona. He died by suicide in Glasgow in January 1918. buff.ly/T2AXFIN #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2026

Where did theatrical families send their children? Often to coastal boarding schools. Here's my grandmother Norah & friends on the beach at Margate in their school gym slips - spot the boaters in the sand behind them. #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2026 #Seaside Read more here: buff.ly/2TnbKmI

From seaside to Brixton via Daisy Dormer and #MHVD2026. Daisy a one time resident of Loughborough Road and several other Brixton locations.

Alison Young@youngalison.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut For You" was a hit for my great-aunt Daisy Dormer way back in 1905 - and it was still doing the rounds as a postcard catchphrase in 1931! Here's a little about the song & the seaside humour it inspired... #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2026 #Seaside buff.ly/VuAZF4b

Continuing the story of Emile Pillout for #MusicHallVarietyDay. Emile headed up the Odelly acrobatic tennis trio. Looks like a seaside performance but actually Leicester 1932. The troupe named after Emile’s mum Nellie Odell. #MHVD2026

#MusicHallVarietyDay seaside theme. Telling the story of acrobats Emile and Nellie Pillout. To start the Max Cawellys at the Casino de la Rue Bossu Cannes 1906. Postcard of troupe from same era. Little Emile holding sister Nellie’s hand. Cannes maybe not traditional seaside, but hey. #MHVD2026

Here's my drawing of music hall comedian Mark Sheridan. I'll be singing his most famous song at next week's Funny Rabbit Comedy Club But can you name it? Posting this in advance of tomorrow's Music Hall & Variety Day 2026. Tiddly-om-pom-pom!

"I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut For You" was a hit for my great-aunt Daisy Dormer way back in 1905 - and it was still doing the rounds as a postcard catchphrase in 1931! Here's a little about the song & the seaside humour it inspired... #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2026 #Seaside buff.ly/VuAZF4b

🎭 What secrets were hiding in the East End music halls? Discover London's forgotten Cockney Yiddish performers — the songs, laughs & stories from the turn of the 20th century. Talk by Vivi Lachs · Tues 26 May · 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/PrRF2G5

8.30, Me in my bed. 11.50, Me in my car. 11.55, Me ate the sea. 4.15, Me on my trampoline. 5.20, Me having a Barecyuw. 8.15.

Happy to be dusting off my talk on Marie Lloyd to deliver to the Wanstead Historical Society this evening...always love the opportunity to include the work of Alfred Bryan, the 'master of the line' in #musichall caricatures #musichallmonday

Abandoned - The Hulme Hippodrome www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It once hosted Eric and Ernie and a boxing kangaroo – now it’s all pigeons and decay. How did Hulme Hippodrome fall so low?

It showcased the biggest stars of the day, including Stan Laurel, Harry Houdini, Morecambe and Wise and Shirley Bassey, before becoming a bingo hall, a church and a squat. It was almost turned into fl...

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It's #InternationalDanceDay, luckily Art UK has you covered with art for days! 💃 'Ballet Scene from ‘On the Sands’' by Spencer Gore (1878–1914) 📷 Yale Center for British Art

One of the most calming Reading Rooms I have ever visited & perfect research environment @lambethpalacelibrary