Theatrical playbills from Britain and Ireland

British Library Labs; Kirk, Tanya

doi:https://doi.org/10.21250/pb1

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.

Files

File name	Date Uploaded	Visibility	File size
Playbills_Readme_with_ISNIs.xlsx	20 Mar 2019	Public	0 kB	Download this file
playbills-pdf.jpg	7 Jun 2019	Public	153 kB	Download this file
playbills-pdf.zip	21 Jan 2019	Public	50.9 GB	Download this file

Metadata

Resource type
- Dataset
Contributors
- Lyceum Theatre (London, England) (Other)
- Princess's Theatre (London, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Bath, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Bristol, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Dublin, Ireland) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Liverpool, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Manchester, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (York, England) (Other)
- Olympic Theatre (London, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Hull, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (King's Lynn, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Edinburgh, Scotland) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Stafford, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Margate, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Scarborough, England) (Other)
- Theatre Royal (Portsmouth, England) (Other)
- New Theatre Royal (Hull, England) (Other)
- Drayton Theatre (Market Drayton) (Other)
- Drury Lane Theatre (London, England) (Other)
- Covent Garden Theatre (Other)
- Haymarket Theatre (London, England) (Other)
- Old Vic Theatre (London, England) (Other)
Institution
- British Library
Publisher
- British Library
Place of publication
- London, UK
Official URL
- https://doi.org/10.21250/pb1
Related URL
- https://doi.org/10.21250/pb2
Licence
- CC Public Domain Mark 1.0
DOI
- doi.org/10.21250/pb1
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Keywords
Additional information
- 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.