Finsbury Winter Warmers
Jan
7
to 7 Mar

Finsbury Winter Warmers

Islington Heritage’s Finsbury Winter Warmers is back for a fourth wonderful year with an exciting eight-week programme featuring over 40 events across more than 14 venues. All events are free and refreshments are provided.

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First-Class Evening Entertainments: Spectacle and Social Control in a mid-Victorian Music Hall Programme
Feb
6

First-Class Evening Entertainments: Spectacle and Social Control in a mid-Victorian Music Hall Programme

Our neighbours at the Courtauld Institute are holding an interesting event centred around the history of Hoxton Hall.

Built in 1863, Hoxton Hall is one of only two surviving mid-Victorian music halls in the city.  However, although licensed as a music hall, its builder and proprietor James Mortimer intended that the hall should be dedicated to the mid-Victorian project of “rational recreation”, “affording to the humbler classes an entertainment that shall provide instruction with amusement.”

The very first programme from the opening night of Hoxton Hall (1863) survives and is analysed by Professor Nicholas Till in this context.

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