With the help of undergraduate theatre history students each of these plays was examined, annotated and illustrative material scanned.

Databases were developed that included title and author and, where available, place of performance, cast list, designers and technicians, the subject matter of each play and the location in which the play took place.

Many of the texts contain frontispiece engravings, and these were carefully scanned. 145 of these scanned images have survived and are identified on the accompanying spreadsheets.

The data was culled by PhD students, who posed questions regarding the extent to which 19th century social concerns were reflected in the minor dramas of the day.

All of this, the work of more than 50 researchers, became The 19th Century London Stage.

When I left the University of Washington in 1998 it was with the expectation that research I had placed on the WWW would remain available to fellow scholars, much as a library book or articles remain.

I chose to relocate Theatre History on the Web to my personal server but The 19th Century London Stage proved too large to make such a move practical in 1998.

To my delight I recently discovered that most of the project has been preserved in the Internet Archieve' Wayback Machine. and can be found at this location. The spreadsheet data – titles and authors and a sheet containing cast lists – and 145 frontispiece images have been recently recovered from 20 year old floppy discs.

The 10th Century London Stagesite was developed in 1995-'96 by undergraduate and graduate students and by today's standards is somewhat primative. Although it is theoretically possible to extract and rewrite the underlying code, this I leave to others. I have elected to leave the project in its original form

Please read on for a more detailed description of the frontispiece engravings and

accompanying spreadsheets, and please explore The 19th Century London Stage.