List of British music hall performers

Marie Lloyd & Alec Hurley
Marie Lloyd and Alec Hurley

This list of British music hall performers includes a related list of British Variety entertainers.

Music Hall and Variety

Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety.[1] Perceptions of a distinction in Britain between bold and scandalous Victorian Music Hall and subsequent, more respectable Variety may differ (in the US, Burlesque and Vaudeville have analogous connotations).[2]

British Music Hall entertainers

British Variety entertainers

See also

References

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