Kurt of Gerolstein

 . When my dear mother died, a number of years ago, a few days before her 90th birthday, I was on my way from New Zealand to Europe. 'Yo...

 . Helen Kinnaird. Recognise that name? I did: Mrs Shimmering Black, the strong woman, in The Earl and the Girl (1903), with the remnants of...

Billy has been neglected. In the 117 years since his death, his celebrity has faded. And yet, he was an actor for more than thirty years, in...

Back a bit, before I became (temporarily!) a rabid exhumer of ancient D'Oyly Carte players, and was just a nice, ordinary musical histor...

You notice how carefully that is worded. I am not saying that my couple indulged in ho-mo-sex-ual activities ... though I'll bet that th...

The British nineteenth-century performers who played roles in the works of Messrs Sullivan and Gilbert did so, per se, pretty well entirely ...