This day of talks will look at different aspects of how the Victorians amused themselves.
Lee Jackson - Palaces of Pleasure: from Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians invented Mass Entertainment
Dr John Woolf - The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
Ian Gledhill - The Gilbert and Sullivan Story: The Birth of English Operetta
Jenny Uglow - Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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