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.
@dundeemusichalls Linktree page, providing details of upcoming Dundee’s Music Hall related events.
The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum Music Hall Spreadsheet. Spreadsheet of further music hall related material held in collection of The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum.
McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum Museum Hall & Theatre Collection List
Local History Centre, Central Library, Wellgate, Dundee. Local History has a collection of over 20,000 items, including books, pamphlets and directories relating to the City of Dundee and surrounding areas. There is also an extensive collection of prints, photographs, postcards, maps and plans.
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!
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.
The P.P. Bell Archive. Curated by Emil Thompson, 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.
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).
Scottish Music Hall and Variety. Essay by Paul Maloney on the history of music hall in Scotland
University of Glasgow Library – Collections – Scottish Theatre Archive
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”