Kate Holmes visits one of our partner archives, the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. She talks to its Director Jo Elsworth, Archive Assistant Athene Bain and Catherine Hindson, who uses the collection in teaching and research within the Theatre Department. We discuss how their eclectic resources reveal how engaged nineteenth century audiences were and the archive as an inspirational place.

For more, including how to visit, see: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection

People, Plays, Places mentioned in this podcast:

• Professor: Glynne Wickham
• Object: Bristol Old Vic ‘Cannonball’ Counterweight
• Fan Culture: Tinsel Prints
• Actor/Manager: Herbert Beerbohm Tree
• Actor/Manager: Henry Irving
• Play: Davis, Leopold Davis (1871) The Bells
• Theatre: Bristol Old Vic Theatre
• Object: Artful Dodger Costume, Eric Jones Evans Collection
• Play: Potter, Paul M (1895) Trilby
• Object: Lillian Baylis’ desk (Theatre Producer & Manager)
• Social Reformer & Manager: Emma Cons, London Old Vic
• Suffrage Campaigner, Theatre Director & Costumier: Edith Craig
• Performer: Maud Beerbohm Tree
• Major Collection: Mander & Mitchenson Collection

Want to find out more after this podcast? Here’s our pick of free online resources.

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