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The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee Idol: Celebrity and Sexuality in the West End of London, 1880-1914

2022 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture with Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University) 'The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee Idol: Constructing Celebrity and Sexuality in the West End of London, 1880-1914' Delivered July 6th 17.00 BST – Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London and to a live Zoom audience. In this lecture Professor McWilliam argues that in the later Victorian period the West End of London embodied the shock of the new. It became the world’s leading pleasure district and reshaped British culture in distinctive ways. Between 1880 and 1914, the West End helped in particular to invent modern ideas not only of sexuality and stardom but glamour itself. New forms such as musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand and Daly’s on Leicester Square constructed images of what was fashionable and up-to-date. The lecture ranges from music halls and theatres to different kinds of mass culture, including the poster and the picture postcard. Speaker Biography Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and a former President of the British Association for Victorian Studies. He is at work on a history of the West End of London, the first volume of which was published in 2020: London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 (Oxford University Press).