External data sources

Most of the data you can search using STAR comes from the extensive Ellen Terry and Edith Craig database. In addition, descriptions of the following related archive collections have been integrated to provide a combined set of over 34,000 theatrical records from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Islington Local History Centre
  • Sadler's Wells Theatre Archive
• The Henry Irving Foundation
  • Henry Irving Correspondence
• The Royal National Theatre Archive
  • Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Collection
• The UK Reading Experience Database
  • UK RED: Drama 1800-1945
• The V&A Department of Theatre & Performance
  • D'Oyly Carte Archive
  • Edward Smith Willard Collection
  • Ellen Terry Collection
  • Everyman Theatre Collection
  • Henry Arthur Jones Collection
  • Marcus Stone Collection
  • Nora Nicholson Archive
  • Tom Heslewood Collection
  • William Archer Collection
  • Winifred Dolan Collection