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!
3rd British Music Hall Society Conference
Saturday 21 November 2026 10:00AM
Christmas Cracker
Thursday 03 December 2026 6:30PM
The Albert Hall of the North: Morecambe Winter Gardens. A talk by Professor Vanessa Toulmin
Tuesday 19 January 2027 2:00PM
Elsa Lanchester: Bride of the Hunchback. A talk by MJ Simpson
Tuesday 16 February 2027 7:00PM
From Music Hall to Wireless. A talk by Beaty Rubens
Tuesday 16 March 2027 7:00PM
Jack Stanford - the Dancing Fool. A talk by Jill Stanford
Tuesday 20 April 2027 7:00PM
Four-legged actor on the Music Hall stage and beyond. ONLINE talk by Tracey Gregory for #MusicHall
Sunday 16 May 2027 3:00PM
"They were not really songs at all" - Stand Up Comedy's Music Hall Roots. A talk by Oliver Double
Tuesday 18 May 2027 7:00PM
Our archive is an impressive collection of sheet music, photographs, posters, theatre programmes and much more.
Our archive is an impressive collection of sheet music, photographs, posters, theatre programmes and much more.