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The following bibliographic sources were used in JUBA's research. Specific bibliographic sources are also linked from individual person, event, venue and troupe pages.

The Bibliography contains all sources used to compile the Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain Database. At this stage of our data entry, most documentation you will find here will be from nineteenth century daily and weekly British journals, searched by our Research Participants; all such entries are linked to one or more of the database entries: Event, Individual, Troupe, Venue, Documentation.

Era (London) September 5, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) September 27, 1846: 10:4.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 1:1.
Document Note: Repeated (in this paper), with slight variations, on July 29, August 5, 12, 26, and September 2 (all 1:1), and on August 12 (11:1).
Era (London) July 30, 1848: 15:4.
Era (London) December 10, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) March 25, 1849: 11:3.
Era (London) January 18, 1846: 4:3.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 11:2.
Era (London) January 25, 1846: 6:2.
Era (London) April 27, 1845: 4:1.
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) May 18, 1851: 8:1.
Info in Record: Ad for music folio “England’s Welcome to All Nations in Davidson’s ‘Musical Treasury’” includes “ ‘The Song of the Shirt; or, the Lay of the Emigrant Sempstress,’ as Arranged and Sung nightly by Mr. Henry Russell, in his entertainment on Emigration.”
Era (London) August 11, 1844: 8:2.
Info in Record: Article about an insurrection in a Dominican state. Mentions that “… nine blacks had been shot, and that upwards of one hundred were in prison waiting their trial”.
Era (London) March 26, 1848: 1:4.
Era (London) October 31, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) November 12, 1848: 12:2.
Era (London) January 7, 1849: 8:2.
Info in Record: Response to a reader question, which indicates that ‘Othello’ was produced at Covent Garden in 1826-7, with Edmund Kean in the title role.
Era (London) January 12, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) June 14, 1846: 14:1.
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 1:2.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Variety Performers: “Messrs. Penniket, Edmonds, and Yankee Palmer” Days & Times: “Chair taken at haf-past Eight o’clock.” Venue Name: “RHODES’S CELEBRATED “COAL HOLE” TAVERN, STRAND (Opposite Exeter Hall) Program Info: “A great variety of glees, madrigals, ballads, &c.,”; “The Comic Songs of Messrs. Penniket, Edmonds, and Yankee Palmer” Info About Other Categories: Other Venue Info (food served, prices)
Era (London) March 21, 1847: 8:2.
Era (London) December 12, 1847: 12:3.
Era (London) October 14, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) March 29, 1846: 4:2.
Era (London) November 23, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) June 6, 1852: 11:3.
Era (London) October 26, 1851: 1:2.
Info in Record: Call for “Ethiopian Singers” (along with other kinds of performers) to perform at the Hibernian Saloon, Belfast.
Era (London) May 24, 1846: 1:4.
Info in Record: A joke about Mingo, a slave, and his master; uses minstrel dialect.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 11:2.
Era (London) May 3, 1846: 3:2.
Info in Record: Report on a ‘negress’ in America who gave birth to twins, ‘one black and the other white.’
Era (London) July 2, 1843: 4:1.
Era (London) June 25, 1848: 1:3.
Era (London) October 25, 1846: 10:3.
Info in Record: Lengthy article about Ira Aldridge (Reflection on the quality of his work and call for his return to the London stage.)
Era (London) September 2, 1849: 5:4.
Era (London) January 24, 1847: 10:3.
Era (London) April 16, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) April 6, 1851: 11:4.
Era (London) January 28, 1849: 12.
Era (London) May 30, 1847: 8:4.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11:1.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Dramatic Days & Times: “Thursday evening” Venue Name: “Drury-Lane” Other Acts on Bill: “The Lady and the Devil” Program Info: “Azael” Other: other (Azael described as “the most gorgeous and imposing spectacle that has been produced since The Jewess.”)
Era (London) August 11, 1850: 12:2.
Era (London September 3, 1848: 15:4.
Document Note: Similar ads appeared (in this paper) on September 10 & 17, 1848 (both 1:2)
Era (London) March 26, 1848: 8:1.
Era (London) July 13, 1851: 12:3.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 1:4.
Era (London) December 10, 1848: 11:4.
Era (London) April 30, 1848: 13:1.
Era (London) March 25, 1849: 12:2.
Era (London) May 5, 1850: 12: 2.
Era (London) October 18, 1846: 10:1.
Era (London) August 24, 1851: 15:4.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) April 21, 1850: 11: 4.
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) May 18, 1851: 10:3.
Era (London) October 31, 1847: 12:1.
Era (Journal) March 5, 1845: 5:4.
Era (London) March 30, 1851: 11: 1.
Era (London) November 26, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) June 4, 1848: 1:2.
Era (London) January 7, 1849: 10:3.
Info in Record: A piece in the “Our Carpet Bag” section, which includes the following: “A Dark Morning – As dark as if all the negroes of Africa had been stewed into the air.”
Era (London) January 16, 1848: 12:3.
Era (London) December 28, 1851: 12:2.
Era (London) April 23, 1848: 1:1.
Era (London) March 12, 1843: 6:2.
Info in Record: A review of the book " QUÆSTIONES MOSAICÆ; or THE BOOK OF GENESIS COMPARED WITH THE REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS". Includes the following supposition: "Many of the Negro tribes, too, are fully persuaded that the monkey could talk if he would, but that he fears to be compelled to the drudgery of a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water."
Era (London) March 16, 1851: 1:3.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Exhibition Days & Times: “Daily at Three and Eight” Venue Name: “the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, 53, Pall-mall” Program Info: “A Grand Moving Diorama of Syria and Palestine, conveying the spectator from Egypt on the track of the Israelites to Mount Sinai, and through Edom to the promised Land and the City of Jerusalem, thence carrying him to the Shores of the Mediterranean, past Acre Tyre, Sidon, and Beyrout, to Lebanon, and through Galilee to Samaria.” Other: ticket info
Era (London) August 25, 1844: 4:1.
Era (London) March 14, 1847: 11:2.
Era (London) March 14, 1847: 8:1.
Era (London) December 12, 1847: 12:3.
Era (London) October 21, 1849: 3:3.
Era (London) February 8, 1846: 6:3.
Era (London) July 23, 1848: 13:1.
Era (London) June 6, 1852: 11:4.
Era (London) May 31, 1846: 14:2.
Era (London) January 22, 1843: 6:4.
Era (London) June 15, 1851: 12:1.
Era (London) March 9, 1851: 10: 4.
Info in Record: Performance Type: Cultural Performance Performers Listed: “Signor Antonio” Venue Name: “Mr. B. Lang’s Music Hall” Program Info: “Chinese entertainment” Other: description/review Info About Other Categories: Other Individual Info – Signor Antonio (calendar – “he opens with Mr. Youdin to-morrow (Monday) at Sheffield.”)
Era (London) May 5, 1850: 12:3.
Era (London) November 19, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) May 25, 1851: 1: 3.
Era (London) September 2, 1849: 11:4.
Era (London) October 12, 1851: 5:3.
Era (London) June 7, 1846: 4:1.
Era (London) March 24, 1844: 6:1.
Performance Type: Opera Performers Listed: “Madame Garcia”, “Burdini” “Weiss” Days & Times: “Thursday evening” (past) Venue Name: “PRINCESS’S”, “Her Majesty’s Theatre” Other: description/review, reception,
Era (London) December 28, 1851: 11:1-2.
Era (London) May 30, 1847: 8:4.
Era (London) March 2, 1851: 11:1.
Era (London) April 14, 1844: 4:2.
Era (London) September 3, 1848: 11:3.
Era (London) September 22, 1850: 1: 1.
Era (London) July 20, 1851: 1:3.
Era (London) July 22, 1849: 2:3.
Era (London) January 2, 1848: 12:4.
Era (London) April 1, 1849: 1:2.
Era (London) November 25, 1849: 12:1.
Era (London) April 25, 1847: 11:4.
Era (London) August 31, 1851: 11:3.
Era (London) November 7, 1847: 1:2.