Talk:Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete

Event Program
As I created this article, I sent an email to the Royal Albert Hall archives department in the hope that they could help me get a copy of a scan of the program for the event (as shown in the video in the external link). Alas, I got this response:


 * At this very unsettling time and with the Royal Albert Hall closed to the public and most staff, the Hall is now operating with a reduced team. In order to safeguard the jobs of everyone who works here, the Hall is using the government’s furlough scheme and the Archive Team has been furloughed so will not be responding to enquiries to this address.


 * Thank you so much for your continued support of the Hall during these uncertain times.

I hope that in the post-COVID times these people will all be re-hired and that we may be able to get a copy of the program (which would certainly be among the least important tasks of all the vital work they were doing to preserve the history of the Royal Albert Hall).

--JohnPomeranz (talk) 17:40, 31 March 2021 (UTC)


 * UPDATE: I am delighted to report that The Royal Albert Hall archives department wrote back:


 * Many thanks for your enquiry regarding the 1891 ‘The Coming Race and Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete’ at the Royal Albert Hall.


 * Please find below the information that the Hall holds about the event, and additionally please find attached a PDF of selected pages from the programme.


 * Unfortunately I am unable to send a full copy as the programme is awaiting conservation treatment and too fragile to currently be scanned in full.


 * Images may only be used for non-commercial purposes and must be captioned ‘Courtesy of Royal Albert Hall Archive. Ref. RAHE/1/1891/5’.


 * [listing of performers and other information about the event omitted here for brevity.]


 * The good people the Royal Albert Hall archives attached the file File:Vril-Ya Bazaar programme pages from RAH.pdf. They are so great!


 * --JohnPomeranz (talk) 15:46, 11 April 2021 (UTC)