{"id":567,"date":"2016-10-19T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:25:33","slug":"external-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/external-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"External resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This page is no longer updated as the BSUCA project is now closed. The archive collection can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk\/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&amp;field=RefNo&amp;key=BSUCA\">on our online catalogue<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p>If you are interested in stand-up comedy, cabaret, popular performance, please check out the following resources and collections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elta-project.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East London Theatre Archive<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; this is an online database\u00a0of East London theatre ephemera, also providing some digital access, including material archived at\u00a0the V&amp;A Theatre Collections, in East London theatres and UEL archives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uel.ac.uk\/Discover\/Library\/Library-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UEL Archives<\/a>, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/archiveshub.ac.uk\/search\/summary.html?recid=gb2381-he&amp;rsid=9e52b20&amp;hit=8&amp;startRecord=1&amp;maximumRecords=20#rightcol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackney Empire Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>V&amp;A Theatre and Performance &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/collections\/theatre-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collections<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/archives\/unit\/ARC10423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archives<\/a>, including the Tommy Cooper and Ronnie Barker archives<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/theatre-collection\/explore\/theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Bristol Theatre Collections<\/a>, including collections of variety theatre<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salford.ac.uk\/library\/archives-and-special-collections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Salford Archives &amp; Special Collections<\/a>, with the Mike Craig Archive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/nfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Fairground Archive<\/a> at the University of Sheffield &#8211;\u00a0material relating to all aspects of travelling popular entertainment (fairgrounds, circus, variety)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/proquest.libguides.com\/eima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive<\/a>\u00a0which contains archives of entertainment magazines covering radio, television, music, and theatre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is no longer updated as the BSUCA project is now closed. The archive collection can be viewed\u00a0on our online catalogue. If you are interested in stand-up comedy, cabaret, popular performance, please check out the following resources and collections. East London Theatre Archive\u00a0&#8211; this is an online database\u00a0of East London theatre ephemera, also providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}