Theatrical playbills from Britain and Ireland
Resource type
Dataset
Creator (Person)
Kirk, Tanya
Date published
2015
Abstract
The dataset comprises 264 volumes of digitised theatrical playbills published between 1660 – 1902 (mostly 19th century) from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Digitised from the British Library's physical collection of over 500 volumes of playbills. The dataset in Portable Document Format (PDF). The playbills cover theatres in Bath (Royal), Bristol (Royal), Dublin (Royal), Edinburgh (miscellaneous), Hull (Royal), King's Lynn, Liverpool (Royal), London (Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Lyceum , Princess's, Old Vic, Olympic) , Manchester (Royal), Margate (Royal), Market Drayton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham (Royal and miscellaneous), Plymouth (miscellaneous), Portsmouth, Scarborough, Stafford (Royal), Tyneside (Newcastle upon-Tyne), Windsor (Castle), Wolverhampton and York (Royal), among others.
Creator (organisation)
British Library Labs
Contributor (organisation)
Lyceum Theatre (London, England)
Princess's Theatre (London, England)
Theatre Royal (Bath, England)
Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England)
Theatre Royal (Bristol, England)
Theatre Royal (Dublin, Ireland)
Theatre Royal (Liverpool, England)
Theatre Royal (Manchester, England)
Theatre Royal (York, England)
Olympic Theatre (London, England)
Theatre Royal (Hull, England)
Theatre Royal (King's Lynn, England)
Theatre Royal (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Theatre Royal (Stafford, England)
Theatre Royal (Margate, England)
Theatre Royal (Scarborough, England)
Theatre Royal (Portsmouth, England)
New Theatre Royal (Hull, England)
Drayton Theatre (Market Drayton)
Drury Lane Theatre (London, England)
Covent Garden Theatre
Haymarket Theatre (London, England)
Old Vic Theatre (London, England)
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
Official URL
Related URL
DOI
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The 47.4 GB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains 264 .PDF files. Two Microsoft Excel workbook files in .XLSX (2010 version) and .XLS (1997 - 2003 version) format contain metadata about the digitised volumes. The British Library shelfmarks are: Playbills 1 - 107 Playbills 109 - 123 Playbills 126, 129, 131 Playbills 134 - 137 Playbills 139 - 143 Playbills 146, 147, 150, 151, 152, 161, 166, 168, 175, 178 Playbills 179 - 187 Playbills 193, 199, 204, 212, 213, 218, 225, 233, 234, 252 Playbills 262 - 264 Playbills 266, 276, 278, 280, 282, 285, 287, 291, 297, 306, 324, 325, 327, 329, 330, 348, 358 Playbills 400 - 404 Playbills 406 - 410 Playbills 412 - 417 Playbills 420 Playbills 424 - 427 Playbills 429 Playbills 126, 129 and 166 are currently missing.