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selection of programme covers from the Royal Albert Hall Archive in London have
been made available online via VADS for free use in learning, teaching and
research at: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/RAH
The
Royal Albert Hall has been host to some of the most famous names in history -
from The Beatles to the Rolling Stones, and from Einstein to the Suffragettes.
The Archive is the guardian of the Hall’s collective memory and is responsible
for managing collections, which include posters, handbills, posters,
photographs, plans, prints, art works, administrative records, and ephemeral
items such as tickets, leaflets and merchandising. Last year, the Royal Albert
Hall had its most successful year yet with 390 performances and 1.7 million
visitors – the Hall’s incredible time-lapse film reveals its busiest and most
successful year ever (see it on YouTube at: http://tinyurl.com/p56hklm).
The
Royal Albert Hall Programme Collection consists of over 40,000 Programmes, from
the very first Programme of the Opening ceremony in front of Queen Victoria in
March 1871 to last night’s event! It covers a huge range of events, including
not only the most obvious classical music concerts but sporting events,
political rallies, trade shows, dance events and balls.
The
Royal Albert Hall is currently cataloguing its archive collections to make them
publicly available for the first time later this year, and further images will
be added to the VADS image collection in due course.
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