This website accompanies a major project to reinvestigate British theatre history 1945-1968, from the perspectives of both the theatregoer and the practitioner. The Project Team includes staff from both the British Library and De Montfort University.

You can now access

• a unique oral history of British theatre 1945-1968, with over 100 transcripts, images and sound extracts
• a description of the contents of the British Library's theatre archives of key post-war figures, such as John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Michel Saint-Denis and Cedric Hardwicke.

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Interviews with Variety Performers Transcripts

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'Teaching the Talk' Alec Patton's guidelines for oral history interviewers More

Drawings by Harry Greene to accompany his in-depth interview about the 1950s Theatre Workshop
Picture index