It includes links to resources which may help you to follow their careers.
FTF Online Magazine featured the theatre and the acting profession in December 2008.
Theatre and Music Hall
- The Magic of Pantomime
- Theatre-UK
- Australian Theatre History 1850-1960 includes British actors touring Australia.
- Scottish Theatre Archive
- Theatre History
- V&A Theatre and Peformance
- Elizabethan Theatre
- PeoplePlay UK
- The Stage Archive
- Theatre Archive Project
- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
- Royal Opera House Collections Online
- Historic Opera
- Irish Theatre Archives, Dublin City Archives
- The Music Hall and Theatre
- The English Music Hall
- Little Tich
- Mr T. E. Dunville
- History of British Music Hall
- Online Theatre Histories Archive
- University of Bristol Theatre Collection
Actors, Dancers, Musicians, Film makers and Animators
- British Dance Band Music and Musicians
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- Theatrical Ancestors
- IBEW - International Brass Bands Directory (includes military)
- Concert Programmes
- Royal Academy of Music - Museum and Library
Radio, TV and other broadcasting media
- BBC Genome Project: Radio Times 1923-2009
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Link added:
Not every page is digitalised yet but you can search by names - I had remembered that my grandfather, Frank/FJ Lewcock) had done some broadcasting for them in the 1920s and found his programmes listed - they don't sound very exciting!!
And "Hopolong Cassidy Returns" was on BBC TV on the day I was born, as well as a Dick Barton episode. .