Victorian Popular Culture

In recent decades the study of Victorian Britain has undergone great transformation as interest in what was previously defined as “low culture” in the performing arts and entertainment has now become the subject of great academic scrutiny. With the advent of popular culture studies as well as an increased interest among even traditional historians and literary scholars in artefacts of Victorian popular spectacles and stage acts, the demand for ephemera such as playbills, pamphlets, advertisements, illustrations, photographs and other such items has correspondingly increased. Adam Matthew Digital, a UK‐based company dedicated to providing unique digital collections to libraries, has created...