Music Hall War
A 1907 dispute between music hall employees, stage artistes and London theatre proprietors over pay and working conditions.
Herbert Campbell
Herbert Campbell was an English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era.
Mark Sheridan
An English music-hall comedian and singer, whose recording popularised the song “I do like to be beside the Seaside”.
Vesta Tilley
Vesta Tilley (1864–1952) was a popular English music hall performer and one of the most famous male impersonators of her era.
Vesta Victoria
Vesta Victoria (1873 –1951) was an English music-hall singer and comedian.
Harry Liston
Harry Liston (1843–1929) was an English comedian and actor.
A Little Bit of Cucumber
Comedic music hall-song first performed by Harry Champion in 1915, about the types of food preferred by the cockney working classes.
Lion comique
The lion comique was a type of popular entertainer in the Victorian music halls, a parody of upper-class toffs or “swells” made popular by Alfred Vance and G. H. MacDermott, among others.