Further Resources

Abertay Historical Society: A Dundee Miscellany. This Miscellany features four in-depth essays exploring Dundee’s social, industrial and economic history. Each one relates to a fundamental part of the lives of many Dundonians – going to school, working in the mills, feeding yourself and your family, and having fun during your time off.

A Dundee Miscellany (2023) | Abertay Historical Society

@dundeemusichalls Linktree page, providing details of upcoming Dundee’s Music Hall related events.

dundeemusichalls | Linktree

The British Music Hall Society has been championing the cause of the history of popular entertainment since 1963. Without Victorian Music Hall there’d be no “Britain’s Got Talent”. We are here to make sure that nobody forgets where we came from!

Home | British Music Hall Society

Folk Song and Music Hall. John Baxter’s site features a collection of Songs sung in the Music Halls, the stories of those songs and the people who sang them, exploring how these songs relate to traditional music of the English speaking world.

Home – FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL

The P.P. Bell Archive. Curated by Emil Thomson, this site is home to a collection of documents relating to the life of Pat (P. P.) Bell, a well known Dundee entertainer who regularly performed in Scotland and London between 1895 and 1942.

The P. P. Bell Archive (1870-1943)

Arthur Lloyd: Music Hall and Theatre History Site. This site has over 1,600 pages of information and more than 20,000 images on the History of Music Hall and Theatre in the UK and Ireland. Dedicated to music hall performer Arthur Lloyd (1839 – 1904).

Welcome to Arthur Lloyd.co.uk

The Last Place The Devil Would Look. Essay by Ryan Fitzpatrick tracing the history of a song in Dundee, “I’m Going Back to Old Kilkenny”

The Last Place The Devil Would Look – Ryan Fitzpatrick